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Oh I love when we meet the Evil Thing in the first few chapters & then things only get scarier as the protagonist battles with the feeling of being alone with the Evil Thing.

I didn’t love ‘Diavola’ because I found the main character to be slightly annoying, but I’m getting similar vibes from the narrator here and I’m weirdly actually enjoying it?

I hate love triangles!!!!

Okay so in real life, people go in and out of our lives. But in books when you introduce a hot butch love interest, you dont usuallyyyyy send the characters on one date before replacing that love interest with an asshole paramilitary type man. I feel like I’m getting emotional whiplash?? I mean yay bi rights I guess?? I’ll finish the book because the magic is interesting but yes I’m gonna be grumpy about it.

I read one of this author’s other books a few years back and it was SO boring oh my goodness, but this one is actually fun!

So…. I disliked Reina at first, and I’ve now grown to like her! She wields magic AND a machete :D

However, she has a crush on two different women. One is sweet to her but hates her use of dark and evil magic. The other one is described as hot but keeps calling Reina a word which is a slur in this fictional universe. Why on earth should I root for either part of this love triangle????

Genderfluid anti-capitalist dragons!!!!

Okay this is incredible so far and I’m so glad I chose to give it a try after literally EIGHT years of side eyeing it and wondering if it was worth the hype. That said, it’s billed as the first in a series however there are kind of a lot of words for dragons I don’t understand that I think I would get if I had read the author’s Seraphina series first.. Not too confusing but just ruins the immersion a bit.

So far there are a lot of trite sounding lines such as “I once read somewhere that no man is an island. … But maybe girls are.” But it kind of works?? Somehow??

Beginning to fall asleep reading this when suddenly the mc decides the house is personified?? make it make sense

she who became the sun or she who became the SON ahahahahaha happy pride month

having so much trouble sticking with this after the plot twist reveal :/

Already fascinated by this mystery - the main characters have received a letter from beyond the grave from their dead mother ????????? telling them to investigate her favourite creepy small town deep in the desert????? makes me want to be in arizona myself

I’ve only just begun this but as Ward is one of my favorite authors, I have no doubts it will be an amazing rollercoaster of a mystery!!