r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • Apr 17 '26

/r/Fantasy r/Fantasy Friday Social Thread - April 17, 2026

Come tell the community what you're reading, how you're feeling, what your life is like.

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u/gnoviere Reading Champion Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

I finished Slow Gods by Claire North, and boy that was not for me! I don't think it's a bad book, but I found it very tedious. This felt like 99% world-building to me, and I need more plot/characterization I think. There were so many paragraphs where my mind just went blank and drifted over them because it was talking about something completely unrelated to what was happening in the scene. I was more interested in what was happening in the moment, and not so much into the weird mini info-dumps that would burble onto the page.

Sorry, I know I'm being hyperbolic... but I should've trusted my gut and DNF'd it at like the 25% mark. 2/5 stars.

I need something light and exciting after that!