Lucia's a mother, and parenting is hard work! Luckily, as with most things, Lucia can dump her parenting responsibilities onto Ilya. It's not like the demon is busy prepping for war against the immortal realm or anything.
This is the sequel to A Squirrel's Ascension. Content Sexual themes. Profanity. Gore.
Another insane addition to the story of a once slave squirrel girl on her rise to great power. In the returning roll of narrator Mare Trevathan continues to bring the characters to life although this book is more about how the Shadow Devil sect goes about forcing all of the other sects to conform to their (see Ilya's) new standard and how Softie and Lucia's miracle child is raised (if I remember her conception happened in the last book.) With Lucia being strong enough to go to the immortal realm a bright door has appeared above her but she is refusing to go with her daughter here to spoil and basically being the strongest being in the immortal continents. However in the immortal realms a wicked man is escaping with a powerful technique and decides to escape tp the immortal continent through her door even if he will lose power in the process. What follows is a practice of forced labor, bad behaviors, and difficult child rearing processes. Just a typical squirrelly book. :)
In fact having become accustomed to the generally not safe for younger reader style of this series the only real problem I had this time was the child Sophia's voice later on in the series. Certainly she is seven by the end of the book and it seems even though she has more smarts than her mother Lucia that she starts sound dumber and not like how she seemed in the beginning. Perhaps the older squirrel-kin get the less bright...that would explain Lucia considering how long she has been around already.
Overall the story isn’t bad, very much in the same vein as the previous books, so it definitely falls within expectations. Though, while I know that the very idiot of main character falls into the whole idea of the series, I have to admit that it becomes a tad old and a bit aggravating after a certain point. Maybe I shouldn’t have read all four books back to back lol.
Ya, I'm liking Lucia less and less as the series goes on. I was really hoping this would be more about her daughter, but she was really just a side character.
A fun story but same complaint as last time in that it mostly read like a movie with very little detail. Flowed well anyway and I’ll be interested in seeing where it goes eventually.