Anastasia King’s Reviews > The Song Rising > Status Update

“Warden chained and brutalised in a room like this one, held in a permanent state of torture, denied the mercy of death to escape it.” — is an interesting bit of foreshadowing when I’ve already survived reading The Mask Falling

I just want to reach into the book and give Paige a big hug

Oh.

Oh.

My sieve-like-memory is starting to remember— all it took was “result in my capture”.

Fuck.

Nice mention of “ice croquet” and it being an amaurotic obsession.

As in fiction, as in life.

I was planning on saving my last 2 rereads for The Dark Mirror release day to soften the emotional damage (again)— but Lidya inspired me against my will.

It’s nice to revisit a book that brings me joy though after I dnf’d Onyx Storm