Rioka is an equally clueless b**** who believes she's better than every single entity she comes across. She hasn't even figured out she has multiple bedrooms to sleep in, yet she's being built up as some kind of secret master strategist. She whines her way through her days, and can't figure out the basic necessities of life, but everyone eventually loves her because. It is clear now that Erin is some sort of clueless amazing genius who is going to stumble onto saving everyone. The whole "simple girl is actually an amazing hero who is meant to save the world" trope is now the new formula for female power. (I skipped through a book?!) I don't know why females have to be written as so boringly dull. First, the obnoxious 30 minute chat conversation was so annoying that I had to skip through it. From the start of listening to this one, I was put off. I loved the descriptions of everything, loved most of the characters, though the two main characters had a lot of development to do.
When I heard the first book, I was delighted. WHY?!?! Why anyone would think that ANYONE wants to escape to a fantasy world where we still all sit around and gripe about American politics is beyond my wildest comprehension. I'm only on chapter 7, and there's been already been too many conversations about Donald Trump.
I loved having all the different perspectives of the same situations because they add a lot a nuance and humor to the stories. It got a little confusing, but I think that is the nature of the issue and a bit unavoidable. For example, a secret can be revealed to one character from another character's perspective, and then we switch to that character's perspective and start long before that point and may not even reach that point. My one complaint might be that the cyclical storytelling from multiple perspectives was a little confusing at times because the time spans of the perspectives can be wildly varied. Normally with a book nearly this long, I would have to stop in the middle and listen to something else for a while, but not with this one. I loved basically everything about this book! The side stories were awesome, the characters are beautifully and consistently flawed, the arcs are exciting, the world is delightfully complex, and the narration is superb.
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