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OF FREAKING COURSE

“The words flew from my mouth before I could think better of them”

Unfortunately it happens a lot with you

“Why else would he eschew the means to save them just to have you to wife?”
“If you love the people as fiercely as you claim, why do you deny him the means to save them because he will not have you?”

Briony 🤦‍♀️

“Because when last you spoke them you were nearly taken from me.”

Thank you Elyan for being reasonable

“That sort of control takes years to master.”

How many bets do you want to place that she will, somehow, miraculously master in the short time she’s known about her power?

What is this? The 4th grade????????
What is up with these elementary insults?

“How?” I demanded, my finger thrust accusatorily between us. “How could you have possibly known she would beat them all?”


Of course she would beat them. The author said so.

Instead of actually describing the tournament Tabar is participating in, author glosses over her victories and instead uses this scene as a way to show her characters bask in the humiliation of men and talk about how much they dislike them.

I’m tired of 21st century feminism talking points being injected into books that take place on an entirely different culture and planet. MAKE IT DIFFERENT!!!

Okay well I seem to have hit a wall with this book.
I definitely want to know how things will turn out in the end, but I’m not AS excited as I was anymore.
Briony’s personality in book 2 ruined everything that was good about her and the story in book 1. I can’t get past that for some reason 😭😭😭