#soman: i am going to create a book that is so out of place

[inferiorspooks]

qfg reaction: 7/10 not as bad as i thought it would be but not ... particularly good either

characters: first off, ‘jasper’ or whatever the fuck his name is, is a punk ass bitch. i’ve only known him for a few hours but if anything happened to him i would be extremely pleased.  Lady of The Lake kissed him??? sounds fake as shit but mkay. 

as for rhian,,,,, yeah okay rhian was a good twist villain, i thought he was hella bland as a support character. he and tedros played off each other well. (and dammit soman stop making them siblings to avoid shipping material) 

i loved Nicola. That scene where she told off sophie made me happy and i usually like sophie but yes i was rooting for her. RIP chaddick and lancelot you were good conceptually. Forgot everyone else. 

except hort. i fucking hated hort in this one. who would want a hort? 

Also, the tlea ending for Sophie was so satisfying. i feel like soman was trying to dismantle that bc he can’t just have one character arc that makes sense. or maybe he thought she was boring bc she was happy being on her own and he can’t stand the thought of one person not being paired up. or bc sophie is a self insert. or maybe-

lots of developed arcs got tossed away to create more drama. am not a fan. 0/10 do better. 

relationships: i didn’t like tedros/agatha that much and this book didn’t convince me very much. the scene after tedros and sophie ‘break up’  in tlea pushed me over the edge but yeah. not very much in this one. 

the letter sophie sends to agatha where she calls herself ‘silly old me’ is exactly the content i wanted. love is stored in agatha realizing the importance of platonic relationships. their reunion was cute, if not for hort grumbling darkly about hating agatha for hugging her SISTER even though i thought they established a friendship last time. 

i was getting behind the idea of them as sisters until they smiled knowingly at each other during that weak hester/anadil bonfire scene. like. wtf was that? why knowingly? because they were girls in love too, but actually not???? whomst?? 

tbh some of the hicola scenes were cute but i still don’t like hort. give me back comic relief hort. 

ALSO: if i see anyone shipping dot and kei i will combust on the spot i know abt the rafal/dot stuff and i’m just gonna stay in my tiny corner of the fandom, why you guys gotta be like... that. (keian is ok but it has to be done right. that being said please send me your fic recs)

plot: got weird sometimes, too slow paced and too fast at times. kinda confusing but i’ve never super smart and analytical anyways so maybe it’s just me. personally the first one is my favorite because of all the twists but they just got kind of tiring to me in this one. 

soman seemed eager to hop from mystery to political drama to romantic drama to magical fantasy to old fairy tale centric quests and it really lost me eventually. 

i didn’t get the lion eagle snake story but i don’t think many people did anyways. all in all, it was fun at times, but i’ll never take it as seriously as the school years.