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yeah.... this third volume is not very good

Okay, Simon started off kind of a crazy child, but why are all the female main characters so... stupid? 😭??? I'm kind of offended. Like i get it now, I prefer the girlboss with 7 older brothers to this.

This book is a lot harsher than the last two.... I dont like that about it.

Like, I see the formulas but these are *not* the implicit contracts I'm used to following between author and reader. I don't know how to measure where we're going, and this is usually a bad thing, but this time no, it's just that I'm not imaginative enough. Sucks there was SA in my comfort read though.

Okay, nevermind. Back again to "I did not know a story could do that"

I am sorry to say im not enjoying this as much as the last volume. The war was, of course, tiring. The swamp comes off as a formulaic sidequest extending the story, though I am likely wrong.

I don't really like that the psychological mechanic of 'quiet child attaches to someone of similar vibe' was used *twice.*

MST had usurped Ascendance of a Bookworm as my favorite series of all time, and this volume as surpassed The Hobbit as my favorite book.

The Sithi are...terrifying.

such a terrible liar!!! Aaaa, its giving me anxiety

Man....it got better. Im stunned!!

It has some good ideas though, and some nicely thoughtful 'truths' about life. But they're kind of disconnected, like you're walking through the psyches of normal, not particularly interesting real people, who sometimes have disconnected threads of wisdom.

Its the 4th wall breaks I don't like. It's a beautiful in aesthetics and premise, but it doesn't pull them off very well. The worldbuilding feels threadbare.