Rich and Ryan tackle James Islington's Strength of the Few.

Spoiler warning at 12 minutes for those who haven't read it yet!

Vis gets replicated across three worlds and somehow none of them are having a good time. Between Res, Obiteum, and Luceum, the boys debate whether juggling three storylines is ambitious worldbuilding or just exhausting—spoiler: it's both.

They break down what works (druids are always cool, Egyptian scarabs, that lake scene where Vis literally arms himself), what doesn't (becoming a Quintus off-camera, time-jumping past all the good training montages, three worlds that barely talk to each other), and why Luceum carried this book on its back. Plus: the most suspicious identical 7/10 scoring in podcast history, one-star reviews that actually slap, and the realization that this might've been homework for book three.