 So, you know book clubs ready to go. I read it. You read it. We know about it We'll do a book club show on it soon. I read the first four chapters of the next I read zero chapters So, uh, it starts off in magic school doesn't it? Yeah, no, it probably starts in In the bar in the bar. Yes, so I Might not have the highest opinion of the books as a whole now that I've read a good chunk of the nice book So you're a smart man guess for me if you will what happens in the first I don't know quarter of that book the next book in the trilogy. It's probably let's see he went to He fought the dragon. Yeah, that's all in the first book though He all right So then he's in the bar and they're talking about the spiders and the chronicler starts chronicling again. Yeah, same old He goes back to magic school. Yeah, the what are the guys who run the magic school called the elders the Masters the masters are pissed because he was he left school and misbehaved and he's in big trouble And he has to he can't afford to pay his tuition His tuition is now like 10 talents and you can't afford that buddy So he goes back to Debbie because he can't make any money because he got in trouble for something else And then Ambrose is dating that girl that he likes suddenly. I didn't see that coming, but that's okay. No It's the same goddamn thing just happening again. He's out of money. He goes to play in the inn No one will patronize him. It's like it's retelling the exact same star And you just keep cycling through these same three conflicts and sort of a spiral goes like this But the thing is it's like cycle move forward cycle move forward cycle move so when he first became an LF or whatever He became like the first level of Arcanist like you he's the youngest Arcanist ever. Oh my god. Oh But he's not a real are that's the next level up and then we became a real R It was like such a big deal. They keep adding proper nouns beyond that Oh, yeah, those words basically more junior. Yeah I mean think about even if he gets the gilder and becomes as good as a venthy, right? He graduates basically and exceeds which we know he's not gonna do no, right? Then you he's got to become a master And then once you become a master, I guess you could become the grandmaster the only reason But the thing is they make a big deal about like you're you're a law And then he brings up more proper nouns to like it's like if you level up in Final Fantasy But then all the monsters level up with you so nothing actually changes He's making more money. He'll make like 14 talents But then tuitions 10 talents then some bullshit happens So the scale of everything keeps going up, but the story doesn't change. I wish they really the book could have done better by Solving, you know, if he would have just when you beat a conflict don't bring this burning wheel Let it rise exactly just let that conflict ride. You got the money. You paid your tuition good Tuition is not gonna be a problem again. Now. It's these other things, right the exploding You know Arcanist shop, right all those kinds of things, right? Just keep bouncing around between all these new and different conflicts and stop always bringing it back to the same Conflict as like this sort of foundation like it's like someone's writing the book and they don't know what they can't think of an idea For what to happen next but they have to write something today So I'll just you know, oh, he's in trouble with the money again. Oh, he's in trouble with the Bentay And now I thought of something reminds me of a burning wheel campaign where you have the one big test in a session And then every few sessions resource test Just more like every two chapters though, right? I mean Come on So the only reason I'm continuing maybe we should make an edit where we remove all those chapters with those conflicts And only have the chapters that have the other stuff like the dragon So the only reason I'm still reading it like the second book right now is the one I didn't start the next book club book yet and to Every time I'm just about to the point. You know what? I don't give a fuck I'm just gonna stop reading then I get to see like eloden teaching a class. He's the best. He's the best master He's also crazy and he's more crazy now. The problem is he's a little crazy in this almost stereotypical way like running around chasing Dan Alliance yes Yeah, I don't know also. I'm not to turn this into the actual book club episode, but I'm kind of annoyed that The school is such a like high school pet like college isn't like that anywhere in the world. I Think it's sort of like a one-piece situation, right? It's like oh, it's a really long and boring fight Oh, and then it got interesting again as soon as the fight was over and along and boring fight It's like just remove all the long and boring fight chapters. Yep, and it'd be the best There's also a proper noun creep, but I'll save that for the book club show