#I think I’ll try to get to the last sevenwaters book for the sake of sticking it out but not for a long while idk

[malrie]

in a pure narrative sense I don’t actually believe this is for nothing, I see the vision + understand why some things need to come to pass. but the drop in pace compared to the first book can’t really be ignored here. as well as the fact that reliance on building up for what I assume to be the climax in the third book is sort of disappointing since it makes me feel like I shouldn’t expect anything exciting in this book at all. which isn’t quite fair to the main chars of this book.

i was wondering why this book feels like such a slog to get thru at times compared to marillier’s other works and. son of the shadows is 600 pages. LMFAO WHAT. I mean im like 70% of the way and all but since I’ve been ebooking it I never even thought it wasn’t the same length as daughter of the forest ~400 pages…. damn no wonder I gave up last year cuz by the time I read 300 pages of nothing kdkwmmekt

also for reference dreamer’s pool was apparently 464, the wildwood dancing book duo was about 400-430 each.. like those were just fine and I normally don’t care much for page counts bc I feel those are just so dependent on vibes too but yeah it’s just sooo noticeable bc the pace is whack