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And 3 voice actors?? Thank goodness

....Was that it felt like none of the other characters existed unless they were in that specific scene. Like, if they didn't have something to personally say to Isla, they didn't exist because they didn't have agency or plot outside of the specific thing they could do for Isla in that moment. It's so lifeless to bring a character in for 2 minutes, serve a purpose and then dont see them again till you need something.

You know, I'm just happy to have split POVs. Something I was mildly desperate for since book 2. Book 2 desperately needed grim's POV, to actually ramp up the fear of the war and why the fighting was necessary. Book 3 desperately needed Oros POV, because it didn't make sense that he just disappeared for 60% of the book, only to come back in the final moments to be betrayed. One of my biggest complaints.....

Isla would be more believable as a villain if she wasn't so whiny.... like you want the morally gray, I kill people who deserve it, but I regret that I have to kill, I'm a monster, I'm the villain..... but I'm also beyond needy and have not figured out how to self soothe and I whine at every single inconvenience. I think I finally get what the author was going for, but it's just so poorly executed....

We get another POV??!?!! We're finally away for Isla?? Wooooo!!!!!

Mr. Stark, is that you? -Peter Parker at some point

Ugh..... a mimic..... my actual least favorite power..... my all time least favorite.... it's so OP, it's such lazy writing. I liked her way better when she had no powers. She was way more interesting and the stakes felt more real.... now it's just power creep as she collects all the infinity stones (aka flares) from around the continent to make the ultimate weapon and take down Lark.

The cut scene from Sacrifice to NoOne made me feel like a was watching a season finale without watching the Road So Far "Caryy On My Wayward Son" Montage. I literally doubled back to make sure I didn't skip a chapter.....

Wow....😒.... what cop out..... you dont have to make choices or have agency when you do everything by accident and stumble into everything.....

"Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them" Avatar: The Last Airbender

Excuse me, we just did all of that over the pants?!?!!

GOOD FOR HIM!!! Just because she can't keep it in her pants, that does not mean that he has to be hurt by her actions. She is literally married , has been in an active sexual relationship with her husband, and within just a couple hours is ready to sleep with another man. Whether they have a bond not, sleeping with Orro would hurt both men. She doesn't deserve either of them...

Granmama?? Is that you? Did Aurora not really kill you that day? Or some other death defying magic? What is buried does not stat buried.

Its giving Dissociative Identity Disorder.... like, she's committing these awful crimes. And then using her nightshade ability to wipe her memory of the crimes she's been committing.

Again , it's as though they're only two people.... Two and a half people in this book. Isla, Grimm and kind of sort of Astra. No other character has prominent agency or is driving the plot forward. Haven't seen Orro in a long hot minute. No Idea what Cleo, Azul, or the starlings are getting up to. It's literally like they stop existing.....

"The prince that was promised" -Basically all of A Song of Ice and Fire

"Follow the spiders" HP and the COS.

So a horcrux.......

Orro's secret library??

Poppy and Tara feel the obvious choice, but perhaps so obvious they are now red herrings.....

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YOU LITTERALLY BEGGED HIM TO TAKE YOUR MEMORIES!!!

ORRO DID THE SAME THING!!!

I'm starting on 1.5x speed....

Finished on 1.5 speed...... I just needed it over.....

.... But does it matter if they were never really alive?? Enya feels alive. Orro, Grimm, and Isla by default. But Zed, and the others feel just so one-dimensional, they pop in, serve a singular purpose, and disappear. I don't feel like they're truly a part of the story they don't have plot or agency beyond the one single thing they did for Isla in that moment, and then they are just gone again.

Again, a sign of bad writing, you just killed off a character, and I feel nothing. I once had a theatre teacher say that every character needs to have a life breathed into them. Having a line or 2 does not bring a character to life. You have to breathe into them and make them real. A couple of lines about how the twins look identical and they saved you from a tree. And now one is dead...

Okay now we're gonna have a problem. Cause the boys know something she doesn't know. I can almost guarantee that's the second they actually do something more than heavy petting. Bestie is going to be immediately pregnant. Or some other magical event that is to be avoided. OR there's a prophecy associated with it. Because she has now well and truly been denied at least 10 times across 2 books. So somethings up....

..... Like i'm really not getting it... and now you want to use his feelings to destroy him like that somehow makes you better than him. Also, "change the tide of what war". You haven't even had the first battle!!! Like, seriously, what war??!?!

I think I actually hate this book. Her hatred of grim is so surface level, shallow, teenage nonsense. It feels so manufactured so blown out of proportion, like she has to scream at herself, that she hates him. When so far everything seems quite reasonable. He brought her people to the flower so they could make more medicine, and save people. He gave them resources and opportunities to make peace with their grief....