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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9809680" data-attributes="member: 18">Oh god the yachting crews. That was so implausible I'd mentally put it as being in another book.Yes I found that out later and it did make me ask questions.Technologically most of what's going on seems to be like 1700s at latest, but then luxury-wise, it seems like there's a lot of stuff that's more "Late 1800s, early 1900s", which is weird. They even have at least one brand (the sleeping pills/tranquilizers people mention a few times by brand name) and possibly mass manufacturing, but they don't seem to have the society needed to support that (or maybe it's just not in that area?).Yeah and like, they make it clear there was some kind of disaster that destroyed the world before the animal gods came, and that what surrounds the empire is the uninhabitable remnants of that world, including in the reveals at the end. I don't feel like this is a spoiler because it's completely meaningless and doesn't give away the actual plot, and seems to well-known to the characters, they just rarely mention it, as it's sort of "everyone knows...". So maybe some of this stuff is pre-disaster, but it's been like 2000 years, you'd think cultural drift would have got rid of that.Also also the Hound guy whose name escapes me at one point says the "uninhabitable" lands are wildly less uninhabitable than he'd been lead to believe before going near them, which does suggest yes maybe this will come up more in future books.I'd agree on 4.5/5, the characters and the well-executed plot, which keep twisting when you expect it to but not, to me, at all in the directions I expected it to. So many times I was like "Aha so and so did such and such, obviously! Hah!" and then nope, only only thought that because I read too many fantasy novels lol.</blockquote>

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