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"Alexstrasza would not make the same mistake again."

Future Malygos would like to have a word...

For the love of all things actually wise, Alexstrasza. Just for ONCE use that lonely braincell floating around in your skull like a screensaver. JUST ONCE

Why are there still 16% left to this? Gods it feels like getting teeth pulled in slo-mo. Let me guess, the characters have to be incompetent so that it is ultimately glorious Akexstrasza and her colonialist... oh sorry titan order magic endeavours that win the day.

How can this book get more infuriating with each page? Not only are the characters dreadfully cardboardy, it feels as if they are purposefully latch onto the idiot ball. And sweet f*ckery, do I start to outright HATE Alexstrasza. There's booktok romantasy MCs that are not as much an insufferable god-mode-center-of-the-universe sue as she's made out to be here.

Know what would have been great here? If anywhere in the story before we would have been SHOWN how the Old Gods affect Neltharion. Instead of just constantly BEING TOLD and then shown very much the opposite unironically.
Writing 101 ffs.

What diplomacy? Akexstrasza, darling, so far your diplomacy fir centuries consisted of stealing babies and lying about it and ignoring concerns. Your diplomacy consisted of going La-la-la Everything Is Fine.
GURL!

Trying to re-read and finish this and...

Neltharion is supposed to be SMART for crying out loud. Yet here we see him standing there not just making himself and obvious target but also the MacGuffin. No, Nel, I have no idea how the BBEG could EVER have known that the big glowy artifact that you are waving around might be important.

w.t.f.

Yeah, really not liking the 'Neltharion was always bad' retconny bit. not remotely

Let's try everything to live together peacefully EXCEPT respecting the culture of the group we deem *ehem* unordered...

Also knowing where the story is going as a whole I am really really really not keen on the whole aspect (hah!) of 'oh actually Malygos and Neltharion were evil all along' Meh.