socpuppet replied to your post “That feeling where you start reading a book with the expectation that…”
Can I ask what book it was so I can avoid it with all my being?

Orpheum, by D.S. Murphy.  It’s kind of a shame, honestly, the magic had the potential to be really cool, I was all buckled up for some good brain candy nonsense but nooooo fucking ‘gypsy fortune tellers’ fucking spare me.