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drpepperisthedarlingofmysoul · 2 years ago

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So the whole I see a god in the shape of a girl thing was TOP TIER aka would do again in a heartbeat

And just-- Corien has my heart but not in real life lol like I wanna say that he's morally gray because in my head he has some sweet moments like at the beginning with Simon (oh my god the parallel between this part and Eliana) and with Rielle but then my brain goes who tf are you kidding because they aren't that sweet are they?

Because yeah at the start with Simon he gets a semblance of being kind and caring but that's not actually the truth because he just went their because there was a disturbance (which tbf you cant really say is kind or not because im pretty sure he wouldn't know if the disturbance was a person or not) but then after that hes really just trying to get Simon to be dependant on him so he can manipulate him easily so he will be the perfect specimen to use later on. Simon is just a tool.

And then his infatuation with Rielle is not healthy although I'm here for it if you get what I mean. I mean even with Rielle he is just manipulating her. He literally makes her dependant on his presence inside her mind, makes her addicted to it, and before this situation he almost seemed to be torturing her mentally by all the times he would infiltrate her head and tell her so many things that she just had to believe him to stay sane. And obviously her childhood has a big impact in how she grows up bitch she's still basically a child but equally she was surrounded by people who were good to her - yes they had their conflicts but if you don't have conflict in any relationship in your life, chances are someone doesn't feel able to say their thought openly / proper communication isn't being achieved. And in these relationships that Rielle has they actually communicate quite well, I know shocker. But because of this I feel like Rielles spiral into "madness" is made so much more impactful. Most relationships in fiction create rising tension by miscommunication / the lack of communication then have the conflict created by fighting due to this and then finally resolve the issue by talking openly and then they all lived happily ever after you know the story. With this, however, or at least what I know of, the ends Kind of switch. Yes, Rielle doesn't tell Audric everything, yes, Rielle lies, but for the most part the story starts with them talking. Like yes they have their crush moments but that's normal for anything. They then have their Rielle's small moments of not telling each other things but tbh she does tell Ludivene Ludivine (I know, I pronounce her name wrong probably lol) for the most part and it's more just the denial that's hard. These moments of the rising conflict aren't really spurred on by the usual suspects because it's pretty much because Corien's manipulating her. He's constantly telling her all these things, you're worth so much more, these people don't appreciate you, you can never reach your full potential here, you're being used by these people, you'll never have free will if you stay here, you would be better by my side, I see a god in the shape of a girl, they see a monster and constantly telling her that everyone she loves and cares about will never be able to understand her and will hate her once they find out even a spec of who she truly is, while comparing them to himself, who would never do such a thing. To a girl like Rielle, these statements would plant the seed of guilt and paranoia into her thoughts if I happened once, let alone on a 24 hour replay. So because of this, I'm going to say that the rising tension and the resolution are kind of switched around in this story's case: at the start they are communicating, they do have a healthy relationship. It's just that the impactful inner conflict starts in Rielle when Corien arrives and starts to take control of Rielle and then this presents itself outwardly as she begins to internalise these ideas and thoughts (btw a thing that I thought was actually really interesting that isn't explored a lot is that Rielles childhood did shape her into the person she is and it changed her and it tempered her but it also made her so much more vulnerable to manipulation, and Corien's a master manipulater, which I think is such a cool thing for a character to be just-- I love it!) Then obviously the conflict is borne from this inner turmoil and pulls them all apart and Rielle is even more dependent on Corien because of this, and then after this, we know, I think?? who knows if the time travel changed this, the fighting / miscommunication happens as the "resolution" to the story, which I think is so amazing!

Also! I just absolutely love the covers and also the fact that the spine doesn't break!

And Dardenne is such a lovely last name like its just so good to pronounce like its just so right it has the right weight and the right shape just-- yes. I can't explain it but yes.

I'm gonna get my thoughts about Lightbringer out here because I'm surrounded by ✨people who don't like to read books✨

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