#books which have a plot nearly impossible to describe without infodumping

[gideonisms]

I call this book rating rule the tamsyn muir metric by which I mean that if you like most of a writer's work so much it breaks your scale for liking things but then you read something by them and it was simply a pleasant time, it's unfair to judge it by the level of love you have for the other stories

#maggie s. is really hit and miss for me #raven books are some of my absolute all time faves hit in just the right way exactly weird enough to be loveable and rereadable #but a lot of her others feel sort of neatly packaged to appeal to different audiences #she's improved her pacing a lot but i liked the old worse pacing. so #this post brought to you by me also wondering if my metric for what feels generic has also become skewed due to consistently loving #books which have a plot nearly impossible to describe without infodumping #maybe i just have a highly specific tone i like or something idk