Talk:Desire & Decorum, Book 2 Choices/@comment-37801603-20190318214254

They should spare us the hopeful preface we get before we start each chapter and replace it with something more realistic to the pattern of this book. Chapter 13 would have a preface like, “You’ve learned a dark secret...what hopelessly useless exercise in futility will you attempt now, thinking you’re actually making any difference?”

I get the need for drama, but losing at every attempt is getting painfully tiresome. If this book lasts 18 chapters, we’ll spend 17.75 of them struggling to get rid of this annoying Duke and get a quarter chapter to enjoy the (likely questionable) success we achieved.