I just had to quit this book, even though it was well-written and impeccably researched. It was set in thirteenth century Sweden, and was fun journey into that very different world. It starts with a teenage couple having sex after a night of drunken feasting. They know they shouldn’t be doing this, as they aren’t formally engaged, but they do it anyway. And things start to unravel from there. It may sound unreasonable, but I just had to stop. Like I appreciate that if you make a bad decision you have to pay the price, but do I need to read a whole book about it? Like I get it okay ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES and it sucks.
Especially actions you take when you are young. When you’re young you end up writing these blank checks (I’ll choose this career, I’ll marry that person) and then life, like some kind of loan shark, just keeps cashing it for decades.