The narrator seems to think this is a horror story. He narrates everything in such a way. The way he says, “He is buttering a
BAGEL” is spectacular. And he even laughs at some parts. I liked it a lot!
I also liked the mini-twist in the first scene. It tells right off the bat that the story is going to challenge the meet-cute thing (although the author claims he’s in a relationship after one of those
).
The whole femme-fatale, noir, Russian-spy-like thing is also quite interesting. I just didn’t get convinced by the fact that they’re in the future and that she was designed to do that job and that he is some kind of mythical being. It didn’t matter; she could’ve been trained like in Red Sparrow (2018) or Anna (2019). The magic system of this story is very soft. In these situations, I often say it’s as soft as marshmallow, but the magic here is like melted marshmallow dripping from your chin
The spicy humor is also something else, with the author always defying your expectations; and the prose is incredibly strong (Wow, so many things to say about this story!
).
The ending felt a bit rushed and unbelievable, but I think that's easy to forgive.
In the host’s commentary, she talks about the term 86, and how that used to be slang to get rid of something. And that made me remember a light novel/anime called
86. It’s about a country that has 86 districts, and the 86th is the worst. People from looked-down races were sent to this district and now have to be soldiers for an empire. Makes a lot of sense now
!
FWIW, is the Misery Muse somehow based on Stephen King’s
Misery?
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I just wanna go pro before AI takes over and the bot dogs from Boston Dynamics kill us all.