How it’s going:

This book is really cooking now! Sereia was cursed by her brother in epic fashion and left to drown in the ocean with human legs. She struggles to the surface and finds some floating debris and eventually arrives on land. The writing is beautiful, the world McManus is creating is rich, and the characters are wonderful. I am savoring every word of this so far.

How it’s going:

I’m so bored!!! This book has nothing going on. Literally nothing. If I have to hear one more story about “the boy” doing something naughty like looking at a naked maid and getting scolded for it, I might actually scream. If something hasn’t actually happened by the time I hit 250 pages then I am giving up.