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The fact that there are novellas makes me uneasy. There were quite a few mentions of New Mexico and I did not trust the author to explain it later, but thought I had incidentally missed an important novella.

<spoiler>Honestly sorta wish they WERE a gay couple. Like. No mind me, but the chemistry is off the charts.</spoiler>

How does he always start by getting his ass kicked immensely, if he’s supposed to be one of the steongest pure-strenght wizards out there? Not a spoiler, cause u shoulddddd see this one coming after 6 books of the same

He’s sooooo getting a dog. Please?

Puppiesssss

<spoiler>This makes no sense. Wouldn’t his shield bracelet be able to reflect the bullet? Him giving it up right now seems dumb.</spoiler>

Murder chicken

<spoiler>Giving Red rising vibes</spoiler>

This one’s simpler and it seems like the whole thing is setup for something coming later? More like a single coherent story, if setting up for something on this floor.

“It’s purple.”
The cat is me, I am the cat.

But that was precisely what magicians lacked; there were no honest words, only puns and illusions of reality so convoluted that you couldn’t keep track anymore of what was real and what wasn’t.

<spoiler> For a way out had opened up after all. And it seemed the most hilarious thing in the world, in that instant, that it nevertheless led straight to Hell. </spoiler>

Hell’s not so bad for the people who are in it. They’re exactly where they wanted to be.

Three heads think better than one, especially if the third one is mine.

<spoiler> (...) she had never really known Peter, and he had never really known her. She knew only a version of him, at a brief moment in time. </spoiler>

Surely no one else lived like this - burdened by the tiniest details they assumed had enormous consequences. (...) Other people could stumble and shake their heads and move on. How she envied their lightness."

<spoiler>The spoiler in the description literally only shows up 70% into the book. Wtf is wrong with the people who wrote it?!?!</spoiler>

Look at me, even unspoilering my disgruntlement about spoilers.

This book is tiresome. There are so many things happening and so any characters to follow, but not in a good way. I promise this is not just me complaining about reading a larger-worlded book.

I don't think the main villain of right now was supposed to turn out to be the villain at the end of the last book. No idea why the previous guy was killed off and replaced. This could've worked better with him still there.

“Dedicated to the readers who would go with their kidnapper willingly if they said they had books.”

<spoiler>Well. Not to sign up, but how many books.</spoiler>

"Whoever did that... It's just not you" WTF?!? That is literally the only thing anyone should ever do in that situation. He literally almost killed her friend. Calling the police is most certainly what should have been done. WTF.

After all, there was only one thing worse than losing a close, loved relative to an unexpected death—losing their love and affection while they were still alive.

Ugh. Her in the future also being in this position annoys me. Literally 10 years and nothing's changed.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying, the number is infinite.

Alright, now I understand why the long prelude was necessary. Still sorta believe that it could've been implemented as flashbacks, as it would be done traditionally, but yeah... I think I was just expecting to read a different story here. Wrong promises?

But yeah, I love her break in delusion about him. Makes sense that that had to come, but this was executed nicely.

Not sure about spending this long on it, though.

Told myself I would write an Anna appreciation post for the only not-completely-stupid (or actually... don't think she's done anything stupid yet) person in this story. Tbf, it does seem like she is just Sofia's outside brain, so that she doesn't have to think herself about anything but that idiot, but yeah.

This is it, this is the post. She is not horrible. And will probably be the 2nd star in the final rating.

Welp, this is a moment. Honestly didn't expect her to do this - not in a good suprise kind of way, but still - managed to suprise me.

Oh, and the book is bs, did not need this long of an intro into it. It's already a third done and I've only got the backstory meant to redeem the rest of the book. Newsflash - could've been a paragraph or, at the very worst, a single chapter.

The imortant q: y am i still reading it?

I'm more and more convinced that Ari and Dy are doomed to die, but at this point I sorta like them more than the main fling and sorta kinda would prefer if H/P died instead? I'm sure I'd hate it when it came to that, but wow, does the author not give me a reason to care about the two of them in this book (don't entirely remember the rest of the series, so I'm talking about my endearment of them specif in this book).

Weirdly enough, this being a romantasy, I strongly believe that the romance is the weakest point of this book so far - the 2nd worst part being everything comes off a bit rushed and the decisions illogical, but that must be because the romance elements seem to disturb the flow of the rest of the story.
So far my favourite part of the romance is a second plan actor one that also is starting to get same-y rn.

For being so "totally smart", Hades is incredibly dumb. Like, wtf. Get free just to get captured by literally jumping into stupid threats.

"People are evil!"
"Not evil," Fermin objected, "Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral intention and some forethought. A moron or a laut, however, doesn't stop to think or reason, he acts on instinct like a stable animal, convinced that he's doing good, that he's always right. (...) What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.">