Jess’s Reviews > The Will of the Empress > Status Update

YOU TELL HER SANDRY. YOU TELL HER BRIAR

My girl’s gay awakening 🥺 I fear it won’t end happily if I remember well

Also, I can’t help but feel like Sandry was always the most unrelatable of the four for me… And she was the most sheltered and privileged. Just this convo she’s having with this commoner woman… where is the sympathy for a woman who was raped and forced to bear that rapist’s children? How could she have pride? She doesn’t have the money, magic, or social influence you do.

This book rly shows how time, age, and the things they’ve been through wore through their childhood innocence and realistically confronted the fact that these young adults could share their thoughts no longer. At the same time, they’re still so young. Building up walls and protecting themselves from imagined hurts that would smooth over with honest communication lol

this entire convo between daja and this makes my heart hurt

this is sad and i hate it

it’s.... really shitty that daja was dancing and flirting with rizu when sandry was frightened and alone and tris and briar went to help her

i love when they come together in righteous anger lol

BRIAR AND TRIS 😭💜

very true. shared reading DOES make for solid friendships