read with kath ✿’s Reviews > Son of the Shadows > Status Update

i’m honestly so disappointed… the characters i loved in book one feel completely unrecognizable here. the first book was all about doing whatever it takes to protect your family, but this one? it’s like “love life first, family second.” 🫩

man, i’ll take a break… before this turns into a hate read 🫩 there are so many things that bugged me out, and i just can’t stand our mary sue-overly-perfect-self-absorbed-sixteen-year-old-protagonist who acts as if she’s wise and has lived a long life when she knows no shit. daughter of the forest should’ve been a standalone.

the double standard 🙃 i don’t get why the other was forced to marriage while the other got knocked up and no punishment at all

oh lawd i can’t take her stupidity, why are u sharing this important news to this man first—u don’t even like him —more than you’re own fcking father and family?!

FINALLY WE HAVE A PLOT! AND FINBAR!!! 😭

she’s so judgmental. just because someone didn’t cry like a baby like you doesn’t mean they’re not grieving. ugh. 🙄

the heroine is such a LIABILITY 😭🙄

unlike her mother, sorscha, the heroine from book one—she is resourceful and knows when to flee when in danger. BUT THIS HEROINE IS ANNOYING AF. there are people hunting after them, but she resents the mmc for fleeing to save his men. she’d rather stay with the injured and get killed gah! this is not the time to be compassionate you fool!!!

I feel kind of bad saying this, but Sorcha’s descendants are just so hard to like 🥀

sorscha and red really raised that??? i genuinely can’t understand how their daughter turned out so insufferable.

very grateful she’s not the heroine because my eyes are already tired from rolling.🙄

niamdh and ciaran were caught 😭