Elisa’s Reviews > What Wakes the Bells > Status Update

Lovely sibling relationships in this book though

It is unfortunate that Bastian is such a cardboard cutout of a villain — no dimension, no subtlety, no grey area, just flat Disney villain — only without the funny lines.
It’s so sad because he could have been such an interesting character and added so much with the reluctant attraction but alas *sigh*

I feel like I missed something 🤔

And here’s a reveal we all saw coming

Except Mina apparently

This doesn’t really make sense — or if it does, it’s not well explained — if this illness makes people turn to stone and they die when their bodies can no longer function normally because internal organs have turned to stone, why are we talking about dissection and salvaging organs for science? Hasn’t it all turned to stone??

Whaaaattt
Holy shit