/lit/ - Literature

>>20410773
>There's a lot of shit that bothers me in Act 1 and Act 2, especially all the artificial pushing away from the main plot in favor of exploiting the time loop. Even when faced with the idea that the timeloop decays, the character speculates (correctly) that this is still 'a long ways off' with no baseline. The growth of Zorian over 4 years is also shit at best, avoiding the fatigue and weariness of being trapped in the same month constantly by... just not talking about it. There's so many missed opportunities with the narrative as a whole, especially with this mind magic section that just... eats word count instead of adding anything of value.

Oof, man, I think MoL just isn't the book for you, what other people read it for you find annoying and without 'value'. Still, I think you should finish it for the big pay-off at the end. You seem to be very much into characters, so I think you should focus on Worm and The Wandering Inn next. While I very much like DotF it focuses on different things than Cradle, those you seem to very much not be into. The Wandering Inn is almost all about characters, so it may be closer to your tastes. Worm also, but it's more, eh, psychological, rather than simply about characters, to an annoying degree even.

So yeah, go read TWI next, I don't think you will be dissapointed. Unless you want a harder LitRPG now, then go Dungeon Crawler Carl, but it gets...complicated, like literally overcomplicated at times. The second book suffered greatly from that to the point the author decided to simplify the stuff in the ebook version.