Status Updates From The Killing Spell

I can’t with this writing’s dumbness. The MMC believes he doesn’t have feelings for Kea, yet repeatedly puts her hand under her chin to look at her face? Gives her jewelry as gifts? Finds any excuse to touch her? YOU DON’T DO THAT UNLESS YOU’RE SWEET ON HER.

What a mess.

So good! Go preorder it

Really, book? You seriously waited until now to give us more information about the magic system? Too little, too late.

This book is trying so hard to force the love triangle, and it’s so awkward and cringe.

Meh.

My interest is flagging a bit. The story is just so… pedestrian.

I’m getting lots of Hidden Legacy vibes.

Beginning was a bit rough, but I’m getting more and more into this now, and excusing weaknesses in writing.

“Mo‘olelo might be shrouded in metaphors, but there was always truth to those stories. Academia taught us that there was no value to these unscientific beliefs, but I disagreed. The two could coexist happily because the conclusion was always the same.”

Academia was where I learned to value these oral histories 🫠

“...but there was a reason people would read books a thousand times over, losing themselves in a world of letters—the same people who would fall asleep trying to read a legal contract. My assumption that one was more important was the same as Reagol putting the classics on a pedestal. Who was to say that any one way of thinking, writing, or smithing was wrong?”

Too many YA type of revelations in this book

“...We learned only the histories of people society deemed important, the ones that mattered. LA thought the Homestead didn’t matter, and if they had their way, that would be true—we’d become a blip violently erased from their history.

The only way our history would survive was if our people continued to live. If we took up space unapologetically.”

Deep

Damn I'm a slut for ley lines

This monster attack is the coolest thing to happen in the book so far

Okay at least this computer virus magic spell scene was pretty cool 🪄

She's never dueled before and she just won a duel against an actual duelist. Bffr 😮‍💨

I honestly thought that this was gonna be a post-apocalyptic story but the FMC and a potential suspect is out here doing sexy dance magic to get ready for a gala and idek

“...The internal turmoil was bound to weaken LA’s border. Wards only really worked if the people inside wanted to keep everyone safe. Protected. If the community’s trust in each other shattered, so would the ward.”

Talk about wishful thinking