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Amanda
is 76% done
Oh. Thank god. One of the “assassin masters” was finally allowed to actually be & have acted as one. So few of them got to show any skills worthy of being the premier master after book 1. To a way too convenient amount. (Don’t get me started on how sending every assassin from every church after her was less than 20 easily defeated people, too.)
— Sep 11, 2024 04:37AM
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Amanda
is 95% done
Alas. Given the ending, this moved from a 4 to a 3.5
It's too sadly YA & emblematic of the Shadow & Bone type of ending. We circumnavigate the genre & glittering crass darkness the author spent three books saying we were in.
— Sep 13, 2024 04:50AM
It's too sadly YA & emblematic of the Shadow & Bone type of ending. We circumnavigate the genre & glittering crass darkness the author spent three books saying we were in.
Amanda
is 85% done
Goooooodddddd. Tric’s goodbye scene is SO DEAD PERFECT. From the words, to the promise, to the knuckle kiss. This is an adult love our YA girl can’t recognize.
— Sep 11, 2024 03:04PM
Amanda
is 76% done
“like she was born to poison” — except we haven’t seen Mia poison anyone in two books, right? So this doesn’t fit either anymore.
— Sep 11, 2024 04:19AM
Amanda
is 76% done
I don’t believe this scene of her crying. We’ve been in her POV too often before now without a whisper in her thoughts or actions. This is too convenient. And the only thing this scene has proved is that Tric is a better person over and over, through all actions, sayings, choices. The way his love is unconditional & not jealously childish only.
— Sep 11, 2024 04:18AM
Amanda
is 76% done
I was nearly cheering for Ash getting stabbed on the Sky Altar finally. ALAS.
— Sep 11, 2024 04:10AM
Amanda
is 76% done
I need Ash to stop having pov chapters. It only makes me like her less. These only breakdown to justifying her book 1 actions, dramatic teenage declarations, or sex. There’s no remorse for the past choice mingled in certainty; there’s almost no mention of her brother’s loss or him at all except as the occasional detail.
— Sep 11, 2024 04:02AM
Amanda
is 57% done
I’m still 100% with Tric in these scenes.
Ash has never given me a reason as the reader to forgive her or see her growing from book one to now, from those choices to these. There’s mostly a lot of sex & fevered declarations between the girls with almost nothing backing it up outside the bedroom.
— Sep 09, 2024 07:06PM
Ash has never given me a reason as the reader to forgive her or see her growing from book one to now, from those choices to these. There’s mostly a lot of sex & fevered declarations between the girls with almost nothing backing it up outside the bedroom.
Amanda
is 23% done
I feel like too much might be happening, with too many at this point. Mia barely seems to remember Mercurio.
— Sep 08, 2024 08:48PM
Amanda
is 23% done
Eclipse’s dramatic shift from paired up fondness/defending her with Ash last book has transitioned into Eclipse’s full attention on Mia’s little brother this book without any regard for Ash.
— Sep 08, 2024 08:25PM
