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The most interesting characters in this book don’t appreciate Alissa and Keil’s romance. I sympathize with them. But also how are there still 150 pages when it feels like the climax is ongoing? Then again the writing has turned into paragraphs between two words of dialogue. Nonsense.

So far definitely not as good as the first and I find myself falling away from the main character and her love interest. I really like Lye as a side character though! I’m hoping the pace picks up greatly and there’s less exacerbated circling of phrase between Alissa and Keil.

“When I tried to reach for the door, Arin grabbed my wrist. “I can handle one more.” He reeled me back for a hard kiss.”

Wow…… 😼

“I wanted to stay there. I wanted to tell him that I had not easily embraced anyone since Soraya bid me farewell the morning of the Blood Summit. That with him, every aversion was a craving. That even though one day I would kneel before Jasad’s judges in the afterlife to account for it, I would not renounce a single moment of loving the Nizahl Heir.”

“You don’t have to do this. Run. Take a horse and get as far away as you can.” (..)
“(…) such an unreasonable course of action. Are you mocking me?”
“What appeal can reason have in the face of your tears?”

“A hunger that demanded I take, forge a claim to him in flesh and blood and power. Etch my name into his bones for the world to see.”

“Do you think you can pluck yourself like a flower away from the garden that raised you, the roots that built you? The past is our sun, Essiya. Only by allowing it to shine can you bloom.”

“The way most men love is so boring. It is frequent and fickle and altogether unextraordinary. Arin would love to obsession. To madness. (..) Arin is consumed by what he loves. If asked, he would get on his knees and let it kill him. He withholds his heart out of self-preservation.”

“What if the worst parts of me had already cannibalized the best?”

“There is no such thing as a worthy sacrifice. There are only those who die, and those willing to let them.”

“Sefa would cry. She was good with emotions. She welcomed them as they came, without allowing them to linger or deepen. Anger did not settle inside her like shards of glass, cutting her open on the way down. I wished I had her tears.”

How does Rhys suddenly have the most, equally with Nesta, sense in this? Feyre demanding they make it appear fated that he’s to be High King to force all of Prythian to submit is… insane. 1 “bat boy” somehow, genuinely miraculously redeemed. Azriel’s POVs are insufferable and repetitive though. Cassian just needs to be there more. With all of these children, I’d refuse to help like Tarquin too.

We are freefalling into territory where not 1, not 2 but all 3 of the “bat boys” are insufferable, and as forward thinking as Sarah wants them to appear, they don’t give a damn about the women in their circles making decisions if they don’t get to make the choice first. Lives on the line and all, run it by Rhys or be damned, apparently. At least the title was true and everyone hates everyone else right now!

I’m over each book starting with the main two not being allowed to interact… so I will put this down for now

It seems like Alina’s critical thinking skills have detached and most of her has become superfluous. I’ve only been able to read so quickly because the entire plot is going nowhere and also seemingly.. all places? But the parts that are good are extremely good. Ugh

The art for this series did not showcase the brutality and vehement pain and anger behind all the main casts actions. I believe there is still worse to come