Addison Roux’s Reviews > A Reverie Tale: Borderlands and Transcience > Status Update

92% is a bit far into the book is a bit far to be dropping a new character perspective and a new mystery, but it seems the Grims are on 1-on-1 communication with Nin, the Fate-appointed weapon of the demons.

Some of the measures agains Hate sound a bit 1984. Also, the whole “abide by the laws and you’ll be certain you’re following Fate” sounds dodgy. Politically, I mean. If nobody knows exactly what Fate decides then how can the laws follow her decisions? And there’s a very clear loophole for the lawmakers to pretty much enslave the populations, which I suspect might be the point.

Lilly-Anne and Charlotte have the same birthday. There are no coincidences in books, especially those that aspire to be trilogies.

The book is written from different characters’ perspectives. Some of the characters seem quite pointless and some are introduced very late in the book, almost as if the writer didn’t know how to tell this part of the story, so threw us into the mind of a new character to get through it.

This Orle character has finally been named. I’m confused, was this ever a mystery to begin with? There were signposts all over that pointed him out long ago.

There’s a living Rachthaw heir. I’m guessing it’s Lilly-Anne.

I’m not entirely sure there’s an actual story here. Sure there’s the outsider who has found her way into some magical new world and is trying to learn the ways and to fit in, but in the other books that have done this theme, there’s some kind of underlying story, a mystery, some danger or something that gives it an overall goal.

Orle is clearer to me now. He’s one of the twins, the one that’s not Vince, I forget his name. He’s been using spells on himself and he’s gotten addicted, like drugs.

It seems to be diverging away from the overt HP themes now, we’ve had a significant death in the family and there’s been a good focus on how the magic of the world works and now a promising adventure to another part of the world. The whole weaving of real-life technology and the magical Fate is pretty good.

Couple of chapters from characters we’ve not been introduced to. Seem really random and pointless. These giggly lobster ones are just weird nonsense.