P. Oro, you will not be missed because of that weird body-count conversation you had with Isla in the caves.

Look, I don’t think I have to give much backstory here, and if you ever need four to seven hours of explanation, I can suggest a few videos.Like I said I've finished the book but every few minutes I keep thinking I need to go back to reading it because I forget I'm done and then I get sad and also mad because I need the next book like TOMORROW. did you know, radiohead copyright sued lana del rey for her song “get free” allegedly being too similar to “creep. It's actually kinda crazy how many extreme acts of violence there are in this book, how many times the characters have sustained terrible injuries and are coated in blood and describing the pain, but with no lasting effects and as the reader you have no doubt on if they will survive or not. Alex graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied creative writing.

A lot of people seem very hopeful that tiktok popular kid Alex Aster will have improved and taken the critique her book received to heart. Alex Aster’s intricate world expands after the riveting culmination of the Centennial games, delving more deeply into Isla’s memories of her past, as her future hurtles toward two possible fates.

Worse, her fellow rulers haven’t ceded victory quietly, and there are others in Isla’s midst who don’t believe her ascent to power was earned. I was shrieking like a banshee next to my husband while he played video games as I finished the last few chapters.

hey babe, so i’m in love with you and all and you’re like super hot, but no so i actually don’t want to touch you. intricate world expands after the riveting culmination of the Centennial games, delving more deeply into Isla? seductive haunts instead of embracing her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. the strictly alternating back and forth chapters of isla's present and her memories grind the book's pace to a crawl.One in particular (you know which one I'm talking about) really /really/ has no significance in terms of the narrative and was just there so it could fulfill a trope that gets the girlies' hearts beating.

even historic lore is obfuscated in service of a surprise reveal that the book speedruns through in the final 3%. Oro girlies we're winning battles, even though we will inevitably lose the war (a sequel has not been announced but it's probably going to get a sequel). Like the first book, it felt like rules were bent and added on and multiplied on top of each other to make certain things possible, and ignored to make certain things possible.

If a major criticism of Lighlark is how Isla is stupid and makes rash, emotional decisions, then the major criticism of Nightbane is how she's now aware she's stupid and makes rash, emotional decisions, feels insecure and stupid about it, and then continues to do so anyways.