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He’s gonna do all this again is he. For Sadie.

Damn he was right all along…

Oh jeez. Trials? Really? Hasn’t this been overdone to death? Isn’t the ascended based o. Trials too? Can we please come up with something unique? Is this universe even worth me continuing?!?

Fantasy (romantasy) books love the word “onyx”. It’s been used approximately 19 times so far in this book.

It’s true. It’s like this book has completely different authors. Did they take intensive writing classes or something? Way less use of the passive voice is making a heck of a difference.

Hoo boy. I know I’d been warned this book was rough. That definitely sums it up. I’ve taken to skimming at this point and I’m not missing much….it took 3 pages to describe their approach to a house and knocking on its door. I’ve been assured it’s worth it to get through this book.

Ok so I managed to find a used copy on eBay for not more than I would have paid for a hardback on Amazon if Duskbound were still in print. So I’m resuming this book and hopefully the book i ordered gets to me quickly and is in decent shape 😅

The writing style comes across as a bit juvenile and some things are awkward and don’t flow well. I have read that this author improves drastically over time and that it is worth it to read this book before reading Alchemised, so here we are.

Well shit 😭

Oh my god the phonograph is the symbol isn’t it

I’m starting to get scared. So far so good but I feel like we are approaching the point where this book breaks people’s hearts.

Ugh I really dislike the mother