I tried to tackle my book pile today and the first one I reached for started with an internal monologue from a toddler and I went no thank you

— John Leavitt 🌹 (@LeavittAlone) May 28, 2020

I hear you. I started to read N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became and it features a done-to-death “city becoming sentient/monstrous” theme and an extremely annoying first-person narrator. Also, the prose itself reads like something copied and pasted from a multitude of early 2000s urban fantasy books (none of which were good, either).

I read about twenty pages and vowed not to continue. No thanks.