You got the Gideon the Ninth ARC?? Have you finished reading it? ? I was kinda split on whether I should ask how it’s going because either way, I’m either gonna be ? in either feverish anticipation for 50?? days or sheer disappointment, but I guess I enjoy putting myself through this – what do you think of it so far??

I….may not have even started it yet. I’m sorry! I’m like you, anon! In the sense that I have such expectations for it, anyway. I just can’t bring myself to even read it. Either it’s going to be great and I’ll no longer be able to take it in for the first time or it’s not going to live up to those expectations.

I actually got it a while back, a couple of weeks before I got sick, and that was the middle of Ramadan so I was like, I can’t read this now, I won’t be able to SAVOR it as it should be. I need everything perfect! I figured as long as I was able to post a review some time in August, it’d be fine. And then of course after Ramadan ended I did start feeling not great. Again, I couldn’t read THIS book under those conditions (though I finished a few others).

But…I think now is the time. Partly because it’s almost August and partly because I ordered this box on Illumicrate (from whom I also got a signed version of Priory) so I need to figure out quicklike if I like it or not. I mean, on the strength of those first 8 chapters, it will have to really waste the setup and author’s skill to be disappointing enough where I don’t want it at all. But what if it doesn’t stick the landing or something? I dunno. I will let you know how I like it!