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The books writing is very curt with no embellishments “She lies on top of the sheets. She licks her full lips. She scrutinizes the shadow on her ceiling” is literally line after line.

A flight of eight ravens flew by. Was Merla there?

Remembering what the raven had said- Wise creatures live by questions- Nashoba asked first, Where shall I go?
He could almost hear Merla saying “you have already come to where you shall go.”

But what shall I be?
What you already are, an old wolf.

Merla!!! Nooo 🐦‍⬛

“Is he dying?” He heard one ask.
“Could be,” Merla replied.
“How long will it take?” Asked another.
“Don’t know” said Merla.
Basho an assumed they were waiting so they could feast on him. Ravens. Which lived on dead things, always started with the eyes.”

The book is suspenseful now after the failed hunt that Garby sabotaged. Putting Nashobas rank in jeopardy.

Love the realism, the animals still act like animals, but we get a glimpse into some of their human-like dialogue. The author does a good job with that. For example Merla the raven still sharpens her beak after she spoke about where the elk were

Still boring and apparently Diane is the antagonist and locked Duck in a closet so the main character is “forced” to give the last book over to her so they can get out before their mom finds out. Very low stakes

The whole dance of death celebration the town did in Mainz was interesting but had no purpose other than a distraction for his escape with the book.

Just feels boring and slow, Blake is hunting the two books to turn into one but for some reason it just isn’t compelling. The character motivation arc is low besides “hey let’s do this because I’m curious to see what the book says and apparently some dark shadow is searching for it so we need to get to it before it does “

Feels slow. Blake is on the quest to find the book and Peter/the other boy are on the way to disappear from Fust

Lot of Biblical themes from Genesis. The book is supposed to be from a special dragon found in the Garden of Eden and Fust wanted to know the knowledge of Adam and Eve, the clasps on the chest were snakes from Eden, the ex lie is society had one traitor among them etc.