Status Updates From The Silent Strength of Ston...

this book has an awful take on consent

Huh, I didn't remember this at all. My memory is rather poor for books outside particular scenes that stick with me, so rereading is always an adventure...

The difference between seeing a story world through third-person POV (even relatively-tight third-person POV) and first-person POV is really interesting. I enjoy series like this that do both.

A lot of what's happening magically in this one is much clearer having read Thread That Binds the Bones just before it- Willow and Evan are more clearly members of that family who've been sent away to remove them from the sphere of corrupt magical behavior.

This takes place in the same universe as The Thread That Binds the Bones, but is a more personal story, filtered through a first-person narrator instead of sometimes-POV-drifting third-person. Unlike Thread, which I think I'd only read once, I've reread this one several times- I'm curious to see if there are any links between them.

I had watched enough of those people already and usually just checked to make sure they were that sort of people before dropping them from my spy route. (what are you.. Harriet the Spy? =P)