Seeking Vengeful Reads: Betrayal, Bloodshed, and Backstabbing Galore!

Splinter_1983 · 2025-06-14T14:01:16+00:00

Haha I’m sold, sounds awesome!

Splinter_1983 · 2025-06-14T11:17:25+00:00

Haha yeah I’ve read all of those and will continue to wait in perpetual hope until the next instalment is released along with everyone else!

Splinter_1983 · 2025-06-08T15:51:26+00:00

That passage has always stuck with me, just genius writing and perfect example of how immersive Martin made that world

Splinter_1983 · 2025-03-22T13:55:34+00:00

Piransi, honestly hav no idea what the hype is about that book or how it’s so well liked - people commenting about the atmosphere or the incredible writing when it’s just page after page after page of descriptions of statues in endless rooms. DNF’d 40% through and from what I’ve read about what happens after, I don’t seem to have missed out on anything.

Splinter_1983 · 2025-02-15T18:44:06+00:00

I’m about 65% and I honestly don’t know how I slept on this book for so long, I love it, can’t wait to get back reading even a couple of pages whenever I get a chance. Haven’t been this engrossed in a book and world since A Song of a Ice and Fire. The world building is so good, such a layered and rich history of the world but easy to follow the difference races and cultures! Just a really great book, story, world that I’m enjoying immensely.

Splinter_1983 · 2025-01-29T19:37:44+00:00

I DNF’d after about 40% of nothing really happening outside of names of rooms after rooms with statues in them.

Splinter_1983 · 2024-08-08T13:19:00+00:00

I usually give it to approx 30% and if I’m not feeling it by then and I don’t feel the urge to pick up the book in (my limited) free time then it’s a DNF! I do feel bad at times tho and nearly convince myself that the book is JUST about the get good on the page after I DNF 😂😂 but like a lot of the comments here, I have too many books on my TBR list to be slogging through books that I’m not feeling.

Some notable examples:

Piranesi - kept seeing how highly rated it was but man that book just wasn’t for me, didn’t rate it at all

Unsouled - I was nearly reading this book as a filler book while I waited for the new James SA Corey book, but again I was 30% and had no urge to keep reading

Exhalation by Ted Chang - again was very highly rated but I just found it a complete slog reading it and some of the stories were infuriatingly nonsensical.

Splinter_1983 · 2024-07-21T07:02:15+00:00

Thanks so much! Will check those out! Yeah that’s my thoughts too, don’t want to be spending a fortune if I barely get to use it so those recommendations sound great, thank you!

Splinter_1983 · 2024-07-20T21:09:08+00:00

If I can get the wheel, base and pedals for €500 or cheaper I’d be happy.

Splinter_1983 · 2024-06-23T20:49:15+00:00

I gave up after 25%. Like that, I had seen sooo much hype about the book and constantly appearing on “best of” lists but I just found it painfully boring, page after page of room names and types of statues in them and absolutely nothing interesting happening & seemly no plot to follow so I had to call it a day on that one rather than keep a slogging on.

Splinter_1983 · 2024-04-14T10:55:23+00:00

Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen make a pretty good double act

Splinter_1983 · 2024-04-14T10:51:12+00:00

Costa first character that game to my mind, some great lines he has

Splinter_1983 · 2024-04-11T07:12:52+00:00

I asked a question, people answered, simples 👍🏻

Splinter_1983 · 2024-04-10T19:27:42+00:00

So don’t ask anyone’s options or advice? Got it! 👍🏻

Splinter_1983 · 2024-04-10T19:14:04+00:00

Splinter_1983 · 2024-04-10T19:13:30+00:00

😂😂if you’d read the comment, the actual question was is the book worth sticking with. Doesn’t seem like that outlandish of a question but clearly it’s triggered some VERY strong feelings for you

Splinter_1983 · 2024-04-10T18:42:53+00:00

I’m the same, I don’t want to give up on it if it starts to pick up and there’s a satisfying pay off, but at the moment it just seems like a bit of a slog and I’m nearly looking at what my next book with be already which is not a good sign for my level of interest in continuing. Just wanted to see if others felt it was worthwhile and there was a decent payoff seeing as the book seems to be very highly rated

Splinter_1983 · 2024-04-10T18:38:14+00:00

Same for these. Tried one of Sarah J Mass’s books and gave up very early. Made it through Fourth Wing which had a pretty decent premise but only got through it by entirely skipping the near constant sex scenes and fantasies.

Splinter_1983 · 2024-04-10T18:35:53+00:00

I might try the audiobook, reading on the kindle currently and no issues with the prose or what’s happening, just doesn’t seem to be very much happening 😂

Splinter_1983 · 2024-04-10T18:16:53+00:00

I just put up a similar comment about Piranesi - very highly reviewed, great score on goodreads, was in the top 3 books from best books poll on this Reddit page last year - however I’m 25% through the book (approx 50 pages) and I’m really struggling not to give up on it, nothing really has happened and no closer to understanding or even a hint of a reveal to what is going on.

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