I wanted to know where the magic is going but I cannot emphasize enough that I do not think anyone should read this book. Ever.


If you have ever had any sort of body image issues, disordered eating, or any distress or obsession with your body or food there is no way to read this book in a way that is healthy for you. If you have never personally experienced any of those things, then you still should not read this book. It will negatively affect how you view fat people no matter whether you notice it consciously or not. I don’t know if the author intended the book to be fatphobic but the truth of the matter is that nearly every page of this will contribute to fatphobic ideas that readers have in their minds.

I am having trouble believing that the same author who wrote the genius realm of the elderlings series resorted to such lazy and harmful writing here. How can the same mind have produced this?