Status Updates From The Radiant Road

I really enjoy this book (especially the audiobook) but unfortunately I keep falling asleep while listening and am Very Confused by all the gaps in what I’ve absorbed, so my reread will have to be postponed 🌳

One emotional part was when Clare and her father found her mothers ashes and threw them into the ocean.Clare goes to the beach with her father,feeling at ease while throwing her mothers ashes into the ocean. "To your home, your home, back to your home, my dearest love"(351). As her father says these words, I though it was an emotional moment between father and daughter as they throw her mothers ashes into the ocean.

One shocking part was when Clare shot an arrow to the beast who turned out to be Finn who she thought was dead. "In the war between human and Strange that was Finn, the Strange won out this time, and the wound did not kill him. But his left eye was gone"(238). I found this part shocking because Finn turned out to be alive and his death had been a lie, but also because Clare was able to reunite with her friend.

One shocking part was when Balor threatens Clare to have his totem kill her or her father. After Balor threatens her, Clare starts to hear an odd, dry, scratchy, rattle like noise coming from above and behind her. "Above them hovering in the air was the open mouthed mad-eyed totem."(pg.109) I found this part shocking because I would start shaking and crying if I saw a totem hovering above me ready to kill me.

One sad part was when Clare made herself forget her mother after she died when she was six. After her mom died Clare would replace her feelings and memories with other thoughts and different memories that didn't contain her mother. " That flower of pain wouldn't stop blooming, and she was only little, and knew no other way.(pg.4) I thought it was sad because forgetting a loved one to not feel pain isn't easy.

Pretty slow most of the time but when it picks up it is really good, creative plot, but again most of the time nothing happens and it is just explains her thoughts and she is learning stuff that just isn’t very entertaining, overall a good books 4/5 stars.

"Clare was a strange girl, solitary and shy. She was a stranger to the place she lived, and a stranger to the place she was born. And sometimes the Strange came to visit Clare, and dreams walked through her waking life."
What a lyrical and interesting way to start a novel.