Ethan the Bibliophile’s Reviews > Steelstriker > Status Update

(My hardcover has 400 pages this thing is tweekin)

THE ONE NIGHT THAT I HAVE THE WILL AND DRIVE TO STAY UP LATE AND CRUSH OUT THE END OF THIS BOOK IS THE ONE NIGHT THAT I ACTUALLY HAVE TO GO TO BED EARLY BECAUSE THEY DECIDED TO SCHEDULE ME FOR AN EARLY SHIFT TOMORROWWW

COME OONNNNNNNNNNN

If I don't finish this tomorrow, I'm officially the worst living human being. Period.

THEY NEVER SCHEDULE ME EARLY COME ONNN

Haven't made absolutely any progress in this book in like 2 days, because I got thoroughly wiped out by a sickness, and I'm so coooold.

I got fever dreams.



I'm sure I'm alone in this, but I would take a night full of traumatizing, gut-wrenching nightmares over a night full of typical fever dreams. Call me crazy.

Gonna make progress tomorrow and I'm GONNA FINISH THIS BOOK BY MARCH. Whether I like it or not.

I may have been falling asleep while reading this last night, but I made sure to make it to my 300 page checkmark before 😴😴😴

I don't think it's anything against the book, I just got smacked in the face by some type of sickness and now my bones feel like they're melting.

But I got to page 300 😃

Premier Constantine Tyrus is gonna be one of the coolest villains in YA literature for me. The more he gets fleshed out, and the crueler he gets, the more I'm convinced of this.

I've got to stop staying up this late.

One thing about writing an empathy link is that it's hard to translate the emotions to the reader by showing and not telling, which is my majooor drawback right now. I can be told 1000 times that the character she's linked to is feeling some way, and that it's affecting her in all these ways, but it just hits my squishy body and bounces off.

I'm very squishy.

👦👦👈👈 *squish*

I woke up confident I was gonna fly through like 60 pages of this book today







I read 11





















I can't with myself

Man this book is dark 💀💀💀









(I'll write the review for book 1 soon enough, leave me alone 😭😭😭😭)

Really liking this book so far. A very smooth transition from the grandiosety of the last climax, also considering a 6-month time gap. The fresh dynamics combined with the familiar characters and world and dynamics work well, especially since there's no need for info-dump recaps.

The new dual pov is sudden, but very much necessary and serves the book well.

Don't let me down pls, book 😭😭