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it’s SO funny to me that jonas has a HUGE problem with rey helping silla overcome her drug addiction because he has specialized knowledge of the drug but doesn’t have a problem with him calling her “sunshine” for the entirety of this novel or them sharing a horse for four days

this is so good so far except i’m recognizing the exact same names from shadow of the gods. are there really so few norse names?

got to 27% which is farther than my goal before giving up. idk the prose just isn’t sticking with me. it’s not really making me feel anything. i still want to finish it but i think i might stop trying to force myself through and pick something else up for now

GNOLE REVEAL

my kingdom for gnoles in this book

the tension just isn’t there in this one i’m sorry

being so serious that brindle is my favorite character in this entire universe and every time he appears i start jumping around and pointing

these books are so fun they’re like a low stakes fantasy romp where a guilt ridden bodyguard and their partner fall in love! and then there’s the horrors.

BRINDLE IS BACK. SOYJACK POINTING

ZALE MENTION

i genuinely feel no sympathy or connection to anyone except lydia

not only is this boring i also don’t care

unfortunately “who served with me on earth? who served with me on mars? who serves with me still” is kind of a bar

when two white guys go “you gottaaaaaaaaaa it’s the best book everrrrrrr you just don’t understand because you haven’t read the rest of the series” i go okay. and i read it because if anything a white man will not know more than me and i need specifics when i tell him why this shit is BUNS.

i’m not going to lie while i still love it, this book is starting to drag a bit

how are we almost 90% of the way through the book and there’s no cohesive plot

SHES NOT EVEN HEALING THESE FOOLS. this is ridiculous

she’s not even a girlboss she’s just stupid. also what is the fixation on children. are adults not deserving of care as well? every time something happens diem is like omg the children what if there’s children. so if 500 adults died you wouldn’t care?

how is this book supposed to be enemies to lovers. luther isn’t even bad to her, if anything he goes her so much leeway

goodreads this is NOT the time to finally add a DNF shelf because that was the only thing keeping me determined to finish this book. like. i’ll still do it but UGH don’t tempt me

agonizing over breaking the sacred vows of a healer but also trained as a warrior and constantly takes pride in being able to kill and fight and maim people. where’s the consistency???

brother this book SUCKS.

this book is so much shorter than i assumed. it’s also bad.
thinking about how we have tunics and swords and villages and all these other hallmarks of medieval fantasy and she’s calling people sleazebag. i’m all for chocolate in fantasy worlds, i don’t think you have to explicitly explain triangle trade so the main character can eat some chocolate, but sleazebag is the most asynchronous insult you can use

off to a bad start with the infodump about what each country is before the story even begins and now “Mortal City” guys hello. did this go through multiple drafts?

historical dresden files hell yes

HELENE POV WE ARE SO UP

genuinely helene reads like a woman written by a man

helene is possibly worse than mustang in terms of girlboss representation

genuinely that was the stupidest first trial ever. wandering through your fears to become emperor of the whole country? how does one even win or lose this. u win two trials and you become emperor? there’s four of them. what if three win one trial each? why were these four chosen. obvi elias is supposed to be great and whatever and helene is good too but marcus and zak are really the other two strongest? seems fake

reeeeeeaaaaalllllyyyy YA feeling but it has STELLAR reviews so i’m going to keep going. i think im just riding the high of the jasad heir a little too much like the prose was so strong there and this book is always compared to it so i figured id give it a try