Nightbane (The Lightlark Saga Book 2): Alex Aster (The Lightlark Saga, 2)

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She's so insecure about all of this, she almost feels like a different character from the first book, but maybe that's because she had little personality to begin with and her appeal relied on how good she was at fighting and also how sexy she is. It's pushing the boundaries of how horny you can make something, for the pleasure of an adult audience, and still shelving the book as YA. baby don't hurt me), Grim brings up the value of pain, and they both examine being a source of life and a destroyer of life, a simultaneous cure and poison.

as someone who has been listening to ok computer on repeat for the last month and had lana del rey as their top spotify artist this year, i feel uniquely qualified to talk about this. I finished Nightbane about 4ish hours ago, and as I sit here staring at the pancakes I'm making, I'm still daydreaming about this book. There are multiple romance scenes written for the express purpose of titillation in which all the characters are adults. Once again, it feels like the politics of the rulers only exist to make moral quandaries for the main character amd to be catalysts for her relationships with the other two love interests. i will be tuning in to lightl3rk because what do i have if a book doesn't make me laugh like the joker after killing robert de niro once i finish it?

No wonder there are rebellions and shit because if I had to live my entire life under a shitty curse because some ruler got cheated on and turned into the joker and then a different ruler got weird and petty and started a war, then I'd make a rebellion too, tf? and her relationship with him, the things that isla does, her relationship with grandpa (who has the power of sun and growth and lives in a castle and has blonde hair… remind you of anyone? intricate world expands after the riveting culmination of the Centennial games, delving more deeply into Isla?

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.

deadass there was a whole scene where isla wears a small black dress fashioned EXACTLY like the one feyre wears in the court of nightmares to go outside with grim and ends up sitting on his lap. 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. It's obviously supposed to be a big deal but the symbolism doesn't have any root to an idea or an emotion.

granted, i cried more from seeing a squirrel fall off a power line about two weeks ago so maybe that’s not as important as it sounds, but i swear IT COULD HAVE BEEN GOOD. Yes, let's choose the person who schemed behind her back several times, lied, repeatedly erased her memories, and ignored her for weeks at a time? Isla actually talks to average citizens in this book, but they're all single minded and one note it feels weird.I know that sometimes just having ideas only serves the romance works fine in books, but I really kept expecting to have at least something meaningful come out of the book, and for how often those ideas were introduced, I thought that'd be it. The one star is reserved for the astronomical level of smut and it being too much alike SJM’S acotar series and writing. pages of yapping is just unacceptable, especially for a book that actually has an editor and publisher. i don’t particularly like isla and i don’t like either of the “love interests,” oro or grim, but she should not have been with oro. lore concerning the realms is so silly, it's as if she heard that people were critical of how poorly thought out the curses were and then wildly overcorrected.

anyways, long story short, turns out isla was getting it on w rhysand before all the events of book 1 but things went south and so he took away her memories (after she asked him to, I KNEW IT! Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. As we learn more about the world, we see more people, and they're more diverse than in the first book.

the strictly alternating back and forth chapters of isla's present and her memories grind the book's pace to a crawl. seductive haunts instead of embracing her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. Alex graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied creative writing. the writing is also just not super nice, and if there were issues with the world building in the first book they are more than apparent now.