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Weir found the perfect formula: put a smart person alone with impossible problems and let us watch them science their way out. Every chapter is a dopamine hit of problem→solution→bigger problem. I read it in one sitting and I'm not sorry.

Second time through and the Council of Elrond hit completely different. First read it felt like a plot mechanism. Now it reads like a room full of people who know they are signing their own death warrants and choosing to do it anyway. The bravery is quieter than I remembered.

Not my usual genre but the atmosphere pulled me in and the ending left me staring at the wall. The mushroom imagery is going to live in my head rent-free.

Every page smells like pipe smoke and old forests. Tolkien didn't write a book, he grew one.

Cozy and heartwarming but a bit predictable. You know where it's going from page 30. Still enjoyed the ride — sometimes predictable is exactly what you need.