You should definitely give them a re-read! Maybe it’s because I’m older now, but I’m catching so much stuff this time around that I missed. Also, the humor. The book is subtly funny AF. The foreshadowing is brilliant as well.
About the author though—do you think he’s retired and possibly given up on the series now? As far as I can tell, he hasn’t published anything in a while.
I’m re-reading All That Lives Must Die right now and literally came here to make the same post, haha. Hopefully, Mr. Nylund can obtain the rights to his books soon. (Even though we have been waiting 10 years since the last one.) From the books’ footnotes, we sort of know how it ends already so I guess the wait isn’t too bad, but I’m still so insatiably curious about the ending of the series. Plus the character work is just phenomenal; I need more time with the characters.
For some reason I thought that was published in 2017. Also, I think it’s a Lit RPG. I’ve never played/read one of those before. I may give it a try too.