I was shrieking like a banshee next to my husband while he played video games as I finished the last few chapters.

even more ironic, years before, a different musician won a copyright suit claiming “creep” was copying their song.looking over that review, i stand by it and am here to report that the prose was less try-hard lyrical and adverby. Here, a year later, with its fame mostly forgotten, I welcome the ghast of Lightlark 2 back inside my body for the sake of entertainment.

grim's brutality, possessiveness, his unwillingness to share information makes him utterly insufferable. A lot of people seem very hopeful that tiktok popular kid Alex Aster will have improved and taken the critique her book received to heart. 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. P. Oro, you will not be missed because of that weird body-count conversation you had with Isla in the caves. 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.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). 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. 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? seductive haunts instead of embracing her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. the strictly alternating back and forth chapters of isla's present and her memories grind the book's pace to a crawl.

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! 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. this is not the happy ending i wanted, but it’s also not the tragedy i would have taken, so it’s just boring instead. The one star is reserved for the astronomical level of smut and it being too much alike SJM’S acotar series and writing.no matter how much aster tries to get me to invest in grim and his attraction to isla, i'm never moved. pages of yapping is just unacceptable, especially for a book that actually has an editor and publisher. i definitely have more complaints i just don’t have the memory to remember them, so i guess aster gets off this time.

Gorgeously lush and cinematic Lightlark is the kind of fantasy that indulges all your senses, makes you swoon, and then knocks you sideways with twists. any momentum that builds with her, oro and their new supporting characters is instantly killed by a grim flashback that's supposed to advance the plot (but i refuse to be gaslit!

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? 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. I mean, I don't think anyone expected a huge jump in quality, but it would be interesting to see what improvements the author made.