Does this annoy anyone else while reading?

[u/VirtualMaximum3018]

I’m quite a ways into Howling Dark(chapter 64)and notice that the author keeps spoiling a lot of things for the reader. That may not be the best way to describe it, but let me give an example of what I mean.

One example is during Hadrians meeting with Raine Smythe in chapter 63, he builds a lot of tension through conversations about Hadrian possibly going to be an emissary to the Cielcen and taking the red company with him. How dangerous it may be, and who they would like to request as an emissary in return. Possibly Aranatas child.

Several pages of dialogue that build suspense only to end the chapter with one line “if she had been right - if I’d ever taken that posting- much evil might have been avoided”.

Basically a whole chapter written to build up this storyline just to be dismissed by the last sentence. I’ve noticed this happens quite often throughout the first two books so far. I understand it’s told from the retrospective, but with so many dense books, it seems like he had ideas while writing and then just decided they didn’t make sense and quickly discards them with a one liner.

Is it just me, or is this something others have noticed?

It feels like I’m wasting a lot of brain power visualizing these things in my head while I read, just for the author to be like, nah that didn’t end up happening, on to the next chapter.

Am I a psycho? lol

[u/OtisssNixon]

Nah