haha, I tried to keep going! but I honestly find Kowal's prose rather boring, which I realize not everyone does, and I couldn't go any further :)
and immediately determined that they contained nothing relevant for following the story or learning new things about the worldbuilding
Right?? Idk if you've read any of the Stephen Brust Vlad novels (I don't really recommend them to you if you haven't, though I like them -- but I think they fall kind of squarely in that space where we don't intersect), but he does the same trick of chapter headers that have, say, parts of a meal, or in one case a laundry list. But they are usually somewhat relevant, if only to be a slightly-snarky comment on the action on the chapter. The recipes felt like she wanted them to be that, but they really weren't.
nobody in the book is drinking zero-proof cocktails!
I also didn't see that! But I thought maybe I was missing something, lol.
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and immediately determined that they contained nothing relevant for following the story or learning new things about the worldbuilding
Right?? Idk if you've read any of the Stephen Brust Vlad novels (I don't really recommend them to you if you haven't, though I like them -- but I think they fall kind of squarely in that space where we don't intersect), but he does the same trick of chapter headers that have, say, parts of a meal, or in one case a laundry list. But they are usually somewhat relevant, if only to be a slightly-snarky comment on the action on the chapter. The recipes felt like she wanted them to be that, but they really weren't.
nobody in the book is drinking zero-proof cocktails!
I also didn't see that! But I thought maybe I was missing something, lol.