A word to the writers of the world:

[conuly]

If the codewords are simply English words written backwards, or the hidden message in the letter involves reading the first letter from each word (or the first word from each sentence), and it takes your adult or "super intelligent" protagonists more than three minutes to figure this out, I'm gonna seriously question both your and their intelligence. I know you need to make a code that your characters and your readers can figure out, but by now I habitually read all unfamiliar words and names backwards, and also automatically read just the initials of any in-fiction letters. You can do better than this.

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Found it! Check out this hilarious review! Sorceror's World (https://schlock-value.com/2017/08/06/sorcerers-world/):

"I was struggling while I read this book. I was wondering what the hell was going on, and whether I should care about anything that was happening.

And then, hand on my heart I swear this, I had a major realization on the exact middle page of the book.

It wasn’t because of the plot or the writing. Nothing revealed this discovery to me, it just happened to fall into my head like a bolt from the heavens. What I did was…I read a guy’s name backward.

Yriah Eloh Esra.

Hairy Hole Arse.

Folks, I’m pretty sure our author is taking the piss out of…something. Maybe us.

It calls into question all the things I found annoying or tedious about this book. Was it all on purpose? Was the author writing the prose that purple on purpose? Was the meandering, pointless plot just a dig on books that do that without realizing it? Is this novel a slightly less Nazified version of The Iron Dream (https://schlock-value.com/2017/02/12/the-iron-dream/)?

I haven’t been able to figure out exactly what’s going on here, but whatever it is, I was suddenly enjoying it a lot more."