Kellie’s Reviews > Nightbane > Status Update

Finished on 1.5 speed...... I just needed it over.....

.... But does it matter if they were never really alive?? Enya feels alive. Orro, Grimm, and Isla by default. But Zed, and the others feel just so one-dimensional, they pop in, serve a singular purpose, and disappear. I don't feel like they're truly a part of the story they don't have plot or agency beyond the one single thing they did for Isla in that moment, and then they are just gone again.

Again, a sign of bad writing, you just killed off a character, and I feel nothing. I once had a theatre teacher say that every character needs to have a life breathed into them. Having a line or 2 does not bring a character to life. You have to breathe into them and make them real. A couple of lines about how the twins look identical and they saved you from a tree. And now one is dead...

..... Like i'm really not getting it... and now you want to use his feelings to destroy him like that somehow makes you better than him. Also, "change the tide of what war". You haven't even had the first battle!!! Like, seriously, what war??!?!

I think I actually hate this book. Her hatred of grim is so surface level, shallow, teenage nonsense. It feels so manufactured so blown out of proportion, like she has to scream at herself, that she hates him. When so far everything seems quite reasonable. He brought her people to the flower so they could make more medicine, and save people. He gave them resources and opportunities to make peace with their grief....

If you wanted to write a prequel you should have..... "before" LITERALLY every other chapter for the rest of the book.... looks like we're gonna bump it back up to 2x speed since this is literally now 2 books😪

When you want to ACOTOR so bad you just literally just plagiarize entire chapters.....
*forced to dance wearing nothing *terrible first boyfriend *said terrible boyfriend bites you in a fit of lust *new boyfriend will protect you at all costs..... like Maas should sue.....

1.5 speed..... I'm not a quitter, I have hope. But damn I'm tired. Also snake=symbolism. Celeste saying "i knew you'd pick the snake:

1- we're at 2x speed. 2- surprise surprise , the memories are what's going to save them😒

ALL OF THAT, FOR HEAVY PETTING??!!?!?!! Bestie you need to spend sometime with yourself and truly think about the things you want. All of that! And now he's gonna have to go think about a tee-shirt and his left hand. All of that! And you're not reciprocating! You could have achieved that with a quality bubble bath and left that poor man alone.