#I like grace!! she's a terrible person in twofs but I like her - i think she makes perfect sense

[hedonistbyheart]

I wonder if the people who really dislike Natasha Pulley's books just don't like magical realism? 🤔

Also people seem to have such an issue with Grace's motivation- a lot of people echo my friend in saying that her motivations don't make sense half-way through, when she starts meddling, but I think those readers buy into her own self-perception.

Grace thinks of herself as a scientist, she thinks of herself as smarter and more rational than every single other person in her life, but she's mistaken.

She is smart, but she is also human; she is angry at her parents so she treats them with more dismissal than she might otherwise, she doesn't understand art so she considers it useless and pointless, which makes her unable to understand what motivates Thaniel and Akira, not to mention Mori.

Because she's so dismissive of art and emotion she then doesn't realise that she's gotten attached to Thaniel and that Mori isn't driven by mechanical curiosity, like she thinks he must be, but by love.

So because she buys into her own ego and the myth of her own rationality, she's overcome by jealousy; she wants Mori to think she's brilliant, she wants Thaniel to care about her - she thinks she's owed their attention, but none of them promised her that, so she throws a tantrum. And she's afraid of Mori's powers. By the end she is driven by jealousy and fear and that's why she acts so irrational.

A lot of people think that isn't in character for her, but her entire internal dialogue is one long tantrum couched in superiority. It really doesn't take much to tip that into erratic behaviour.

She does seem to get better by tlfop though.