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

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Alex graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied creative writing. looking over that review, i stand by it and am here to report that the prose was less try-hard lyrical and adverby.

i’m literally going to tell you the plot, so if you care, run run run as fast as you can and get out of here! 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! 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? It's meant to be a little silly, but I really don't get the point in bringing it up or saying it aloud when the book doesn't attempt to interface with the actual politics of war or democracy or monarchies in any meaningful way.

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. The probably isn't the fact that it's horny, but its horniness skates along in this weird limbo gray area because of its genre, offputting and unsatisfying. Worse, her fellow rulers haven’t ceded victory quietly, and there are others in Isla’s midst who don’t believe her ascent to power was earned.

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. I was shrieking like a banshee next to my husband while he played video games as I finished the last few chapters. There are multiple romance scenes written for the express purpose of titillation in which all the characters are adults. i found it to be pretty shallow and silly, sparse in its worldbuilding and preoccupied with romance but.

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? A lot of people seemed to think the first book was Like That just because it was a pet project she’d had since being a teen, and that writing another might force her to have original thoughts. Oro girlies we're winning battles, even though we will inevitably lose the war (a sequel has not been announced but it's probably going to get a sequel). Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). It feels like it doesn’t matter because everyone is just using their starsticks to portal around and hook up.