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

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seductive haunts instead of embracing her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms.

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! Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.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. It's obviously supposed to be a big deal but the symbolism doesn't have any root to an idea or an emotion. 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. the book has grim behave violently, often contrary to isla's emotional instincts, then retroactively justifies everything he does. 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.

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? It kind of felt like the author was spinning her wheels while simultaneously rushing to the finish line. 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.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. It is true that the Lightlark series is attempting to occupy the same romantasy feel as ACOTAR, but the similarities do not stop there.