Hello, everybody. Welcome back to I'll read what she's reading. I'm Reggie. I'm Michaela. And I'm Kennedy. And today is the long-awaited winter book club episode where we're discussing the hierarchy series,

the first two books, The Will of the Many and the Strength of the Few by James Islington.

What a ride.

What a ride.

I can't wait to discuss this because, as always, like like when we do book club books, we don't discuss much with each other until the episodes to just kind of make a little more exciting.

And so I feel like the only thing we have really discussed is just how confused we maybe were at times.

So if you were also confused, welcome to the club.

Yeah, yeah, because this is a doozy.

Yes.

So if you haven't read the strength of the few yet, this episode is going to just be like our previous book club episodes where we share our ratings

our likes our dislikes um just like general thoughts over the plot and book and then we'll do a

fan cast and then we will jump into the next book. So we'll start with Will of the Many

and then transition into the Strength of the View. So in the show notes, we will have where you

need to stop listening if you haven't yet finished the Strength of the Few. So,

yeah. Shall we start with the Will of the Many? Which I hope you guys enjoyed reading two books

of us. I know they were pretty hefty. Some thick books. But it was fun too. It's going to be

fun to discuss because there's a lot that we can chat about. But starting with the Will of the

Many, this was Kennedy's re-read. She got to reread this. Mm-hmm. Do you want me to start? Yeah, you start. Okay, with the Will of the Mini, this was Kennedy's re-she got to reread this.

Mm-hmm. Do you want me to start? Yeah, you start. Okay, so the first time I read this book,

I rated it four stars because I'm not going to lie when I finished it the first time, I had no

idea what happened, partly because I listened, I listened to it. Like, I remember driving in my car finishing it, and I didn't fully comprehend what happened. I had to pull over and Google and search on Reddit to understand what had happened. I didn't even understand that he was copied three times. I was shook by that. And also, reading it the first time, I was really confused. And I was really, I hyper fixated on the fact that I

didn't really understand what Will was. I didn't understand. Was it just like, were they giving

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