“I donât hate the sex and the flat characters so much (thatâs a pun if you read the bookâs intro!). I just thought this was pretty boring?
Weâve got tons of stories out there where an outsider moves into a secret society or whatever, undergoes a transformation. Vampire shit, Matrix shit, occult shit, secret assassin guild shit, superpower shit, wizard school shit, government power shit.
For this to be interesting, the secret society has to be interesting itself or has to be doing interesting things. Best if both.
This book presents a vague pair of secret societies. I donât know what theyâre trying to do. I donât know why theyâre fighting each other. They can time travel sort of? There are lizard men and werewolves? Orgies are involved for both?
Why not have a secret society making breakfast cereal who it turns out are legitimately battling sea monsters they call soggies?
A secret society of people who are trying to create a perfect but inexpensive ballpoint pen, and they battle pencil companies?
Occult bikers who battle pious priests who drive lifted pickups?
I dunno, something is what Iâd like, I guess.
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