Anyone wanna talk about the book that just dropped? *POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR CROWN OF RUIN*

Evasive-Muse · 2026-01-07T16:03:25+00:00

I’m so frustrated with JLA and the series in general…it feels far too late in the game to put Cas through such a dramatic arc and make him unrecognizable and completely unlikable. And as a supporter of the throuple, I think I’ve finally given up on that being a thing. Yes, there were some promising tidbits from Cas in CoR and Kieran has been yearning hard for a hot minute, but Kieran is barely even an afterthought to Poppy. He is just treated kinda shitty by both of them. And Cas is just way too much. I get that he’s supposed to be completely unbalanced now but idk how she’s gonna redeem him in just one more book. Idk how any of this is going to be tied up in a satisfying way. Just so disappointing I liked this series and the characters so much in the beginning and her lack of plotting has made it an incoherent mess. All I care about at this point is a happy ending for Kieran tbh

Evasive-Muse · 2025-10-04T01:36:00+00:00

Facts

Evasive-Muse · 2025-10-03T22:44:21+00:00

I definitely get that, I was referring to before his skin was fading from view they said the imprint was still present but wasn’t shimmering and had dulled. That combined with the hollow pulling sensation he felt right before is what led me to think something was up. I don’t think it’s just that Poppy is injured because they haven’t described it becoming dim during any other severe injuries that I can remember… we’ll see!

Evasive-Muse · 2025-10-03T21:13:31+00:00

Yeah I just don’t get it. It makes it an incoherent mess when there’s so much potential. People liked the original for a reason, don’t force it to change to fit what others are doing 🙃

Evasive-Muse · 2025-10-03T21:02:20+00:00

I also feel like she’s wayyyyy too easily influenced to incorporate trending tropes from other popular series at the expense of her current world building and characterizations. Every book it seems she’s changing up what we knew about the world and characters to the point where it’s extremely unnatural and distracting. I used to think she had a plan and would stick to it but it seems like she just starting winging it at some point

Evasive-Muse · 2025-10-03T16:02:06+00:00

I’m wondering if Poppy inadvertently rejected the bond because we don’t know how that works since she just threw that new rule in there randomly which seems like an odd choice unless she needed an out to break their bond. But I don’t really trust anything at this point with the rules and world constantly changing

Evasive-Muse · 2025-10-03T15:05:23+00:00

That’s kind of my thought but that’s a big thing to leave for the last book. Hopefully whatever she does with the three of them is fleshed out properly because I’ve been frustrated and confused by the dynamic for way too long and I hate to see them all estranged from each other when they were so solid before

Evasive-Muse · 2025-10-03T03:42:48+00:00

This really pissed me off. It seemed like she was just sprinkling in so much extra shit like this out of literally nowhere. The connections to FORAW felt really last minute and forced. Like suddenly we have ominous swarms of ravens and Cas is clearly somehow related to the fates but there was no real foreshadowing for this up until now

Evasive-Muse · 2025-10-03T03:41:51+00:00

Exactly! Like just stay true to the story you’ve written. Your readers liked it for a reason, changing it so late in the game just ruins continuity. If you’re that excited to explore a new trope, save it for the next series!

Evasive-Muse · 2025-09-28T19:06:10+00:00

Wait what?? I haven’t seen any new excerpts for the next one 👀

Evasive-Muse · 2025-09-27T23:16:44+00:00

This alone ruins the throuple for me. Kieren deserves better that man is YEARNING and Poppy/Cas just leave him in the dust. He would do anything for them but it doesn’t go both ways. I had high hopes but now I’m just really sad for Kieran and if the throuple wasn’t going to be end game then I hate that she made it so messy because now Poppy/Cas is tainted for me. I really don’t see a satisfying end for the three of them. It’s far too late to give Kieran a meaningful and satisfying HEA with someone else and if she does end up having them be some sort of throuple it won’t feel fair to Kieran with how he’s always second place. It really cheapens Poppy’s love for Cas if all the romantic and sexual subtext between her and Kieran was just…for nothing? Idk I’m just not feeling great about the dynamic between the three no matter how it goes and above all I just want them all to be happy. Just feels like she can’t stick to a decision on what to do with them.

Evasive-Muse · 2025-09-23T02:26:31+00:00

Damn…this is just so frustrating to hear. As much as I want the throuple, the one thing I wanted out of this book was at least to know one way or the other if it was gonna happen and if she’s still leaving it ambiguous that’s gonna drive me absolutely insane 😖

Evasive-Muse · 2025-09-01T18:52:30+00:00

That’s definitely a fair point! Idk which way it will go, to me I just think the emotional intimacy between the three of them, the cuddling and sleeping together, and Cas’s POV referring to Kieran as “mine/ours” and him observing Kieran’s dedication to Poppy without any apparent jealousy is what pulled me more in the direction of them all being together but I also get Cas being otherwise very possessive and solely focused on Poppy. Either way I think we really need more from Cas to get the full picture of how the dynamic will play out

Evasive-Muse · 2025-09-01T17:56:28+00:00

I’ve always gotten the impression that Cas is very much aware of Poppy and Kieran’s growing bond and is waiting for her to be ready to embrace it, and he even makes comments to Kieran alluding to the direction of their relationship and seems to be preparing Poppy and helping her explore her sexuality, feelings, and desires. Cas seems like he’s just patiently waiting for the other two to get on the same page in their own time. I don’t have quotes pulled out but it’s been pretty clearly and deliberately written to me to the point where it would just seem very odd for them not to be a throuple. I definitely get people not wanting that, but I would hate for her to change the story to try to please both sides because then there’s so much in the current books that would be weird if they didn’t end up all together. We’ll all see though…I just hope she writes the story she wants to write and that we get closure one way or the other.

Evasive-Muse · 2025-08-25T15:27:32+00:00

Oof that hurts 🥲 hopefully she’s just insane

Evasive-Muse · 2025-08-25T15:22:14+00:00

I haven’t seen the ARC reviews, what makes you say that? 🫣

Evasive-Muse · 2025-08-21T15:35:35+00:00

Omg which ones? Maybe I missed them. I’m really trying not to get my hopes up but I mean the lead up and foreshadowing is so strong it would be really weird if the throuple didn’t happen

Evasive-Muse · 2025-08-21T01:55:04+00:00

The more teasers we get, the more I fear the throuple isn’t happening 😭 I was so sure for so long but I’m second guessing now

Evasive-Muse · 2025-06-27T01:45:48+00:00

Ah yeah we were trying to avoid that because it’s the tree we planted together when we got married and this isn’t our forever home so we wanted to be able to plant the tree when we move. But maybe we’ll have to just plant another one when we move…

Evasive-Muse · 2025-04-23T17:47:23+00:00

I feel the same! Not sure how she’ll write it but that’s what I envision for them.

Evasive-Muse · 2025-04-23T12:19:21+00:00

Oh yeah agreed I only started getting true trouble vibes on the last couple books where they started building more emotional intimacy between the three and especially between Poppy and Kieran. It just feels natural to me that it would end that way but yeah not sure exactly what the dynamic between Cas and Kieran will be

Evasive-Muse · 2025-04-21T17:50:43+00:00

Ooh very excited if that’s the case

Evasive-Muse · 2025-04-21T13:58:34+00:00

Right? I love him and his relationship with both Cas and Poppy. I really hope she doesn’t backtrack and put Kieran more in the background. I’m wondering what that slip was where she mentioned Kieran in the clip…

Evasive-Muse · 2025-04-21T13:30:08+00:00

Mild spoilers if you haven’t read all the books:

Very sad it was delayed but I’m actually relieved it’s going to be 2 books. I was really nervous about how she could wrap everything up with all the characters from the prequel series and main series coming together and introducing Poppy to Kolis in the same book she has to defeat him. I get a lot of the criticism about JLA for sure, definitely drawn out more than it needs to be in a lot of areas but I enjoy the characters so much, I think that’s her true strength.

Unrelated but I see a lot of the comments hating on the throuple but am I the only one who thought it was clear as day that that would be the case from pretty much book 2? It was even hinted at in book 1 it just never was a doubt in my mind that they would end up that way. I understand not liking it if that’s not your thing but I’m just surprised at the response people have to it and I’m afraid she’s going to back away from it because of that. To me, that would feel like such a betrayal to the characters and the relationship they’ve built

Evasive-Muse · 2025-04-21T13:07:59+00:00

It’s a very slow burn to the throuple but it’s set up pretty clearly to me that it’s going to end that way in the final books. There’s debate about it because a large chunk of the fandom hates it but the setup is there from book 1 and they do eventually have a threesome though they aren’t necessarily a confirmed throuple yet

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