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mentalsolstice

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12. I read some reviews that complained about choppy chapters

Reply to hermetic (Reply #9)

Sun Mar 3, 2024, 07:28 PM

Mar 2024

Some chapters are only 3 pages, and some readers were complaining. I don’t do audio, mainly because ear pods are very uncomfortable for me. So I wondered about readers v. listeners, with the short chapters, written from the POV of eight characters.

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