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I am chewing ever so painfully slowly through the mess that is the book. Currently about 1/3 through, which is encouraging, but it's so very...broken. Especially here. Hammering the plot points into place is not easy; I made one very fatal misstep in the first draft, and I think I did it because the alternative was too much work, but now I'm going to have to go back and it'll be just as much work.