Personally I struggled to get through it but I see others really enjoy it, and I’m curious what your take would be.

He finds out that before the noble girl is sacrificed she has to reach the age of maturity, which is 18 years. Renshaw also tries to tell us that Thomas is about to jump because Aedan “had become an expert in coaxing and nudging,” but who would be convinced by the poetic description of the jump he supposedly gives? They’re pretty sure he climbed over Drumley’s walls, but then they dismiss that as being ridiculous. Most of the chapter is about Claman’s henchmen trying to rob Old Poor Couple of all the money they made that day, but Aedan and friends stop them.The lights of buildings and passing trains illuminate the nighttime landscape while lighthouses guide your ships safely home. a more careful inspection showed him that the proportions were different – the chest deeper, shoulders wider, jaws heavier and eyes narrower.

Aedan] glared at Kalry with an unspoken demand for help, but the girl’s hazel eyes were now full of laughter. It is a testament to the combined skill of Renshaw’s writing and Reynold narration that the novel’s almost thirty hour runtime does not feel nearly that long; despite the novel dragging a bit during the middle section.The most interesting thing that happens in this chapter is when Aedan confronts Peashot with hitting Aedan with his peashooter. Oh, it’s decided that the pearlnut tree in Aedan’s home town is a descendant of a tree that was struck by lightning.

Kalry talks about hearing this song sometimes that she thinks is the Ancient singing, and it reminds Aedan of that time that he thought he heard the storm say his name.

So despite the poor writing, it’s doing some things right, and this critique IMO would’ve been better if it addressed those as well. Once Aedan is done reading he sees Prince Burkhart and his councilor Ganavant in the forbidden corridor. When she smiled encouragingly at him, he attempted a careless chuckle, swung his arms, and almost lost his balance.