Makayla’s Reviews > The Fires of December > Status Update

The ending was good. I’ll always give that to Brandon ig. Idk… for a book about defying the boxes that society puts you in, the fmc ends up with an old man and not a woman? No one at all is queer? Its just so oddly mormon

The twist is good, everything is mostly fine

Still my least favorite Sanderson book so far. It’s SO mormon, especially how they talk about modesty. I also still find the tone to be mean-spirited. The magic system is also spread too thin imo; I have no investment in demons/ hexers/ witches really at all

This might be the most mormon book Brandon has ever written 😭 what is happening right now?? I’m so uncomfortable with how he writes about “seduction”

Brandon, you’re gonna have to win me back after part 1. I was not a big fan of how topics like disability, domestic violence, and classism were handled in part 1. Felt elitist, felt mean-spirited, felt icky, felt written by a man. No mention of a sensitivity reader in the acknowledgments.

Characters are fun, premise is strong. Hopefully it gets better