FANTASY SERIES I'M DNF'ING

I didn't think the writing was bad I thought the world was interesting it had a lot of various different magical creatures that we've seen in fantasy but a lot of them mixed together and it was a slightly more modern setting in the development of the towns and such things so it was kind of cool to watch a character who was living in an apartment and going down to this shop and things like that they had roommates their roommates are going from place to place because they're often on the run the magic seemed really interesting it had to do with dice and having certain amounts of roles and the way that the dice show up means something with fate and it was really interesting and I almost wanted to keep going just because I thought the plot was cool but I just found that the characters the way they interacted with each other it did feel quite young and I just wasn't all that engaged in their interactions and I wasn't all that engaged in their characters there character development either so I ultimately figured the book wasn't really for me

with this particular book age of myth it just feels like the adventure keeps going and we just kind of keep the upbeat feel and we don't really ever settle into those harsher moments and the result is that it ends up feeling as though you could switch the characters backstories and it wouldn't really matter

it wasn't just that though it wasn't just that scene it was the collection of things I've mentioned it just felt odd the tone seemed mixed and like it wasn't quite sure if it wanted to be a lot Bleaker and a lot more mature or if it wanted to be blunt and in your face and lacking subtlety

the murder mystery aspect of the story was kind of irritating me because I needed them to get there faster I needed them to at least consider certain things just consider that's all I wanted even if I'm wrong I'm like can you just consider this though because it feels like I'm purposefully having the character I'm purposefully having information not considered by the characters to draw certain things out longer

I just read engines of chaos and sad stuff happens in that book and the characters do not have time to be like Oh I'm sad let me just lay in bed and think about how sad I am they don't have time to do that they have to keep going but you will get references in the narrative to I wish that so and so was here with me in this moment I don't know how I'm going to get through this moment without their support

I thought the world seemed really cool but the world kind of came second to the pining of the characters