Talk:Desire & Decorum, Book 2/@comment-34138917-20190131021849

This book continues to become more and more boring. The love interests are cheap copies of the TRR ones. In fact, the plot at the moment is a cheap clone of the TRR (and RoE!) engagement plot, where you need to find evidence to call it off.

I do not care about Edgewater. I do not care about the inhabitants. I do not care about rank. I only mildly care about Hamid. Furthermore, is the manners system actually going to impact something sooner or later? Because I'm pretty sure all it's done so far is give us a tiara.

And UGH, they're making us pay to find the clues. Pay-to-succeed, also known as The Downfall of The Junior. Like I said before, if the really important clues were paywalled, I might actually consider buying them, but every clue (except the first one) costs diamonds. And furthermore, in The Junior, only the first and last clue were what we needed to send Nathan to jail, and were pretty much the only ones that really mattered to the storyline. I'm assuming this will be the case with the engagement to the duke. Sigh.