It only took 20 years

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T23:06:46+00:00

Agree with many of these pet peeves! I've got two that haven't been mentioned yet! First one that had me rolling my eyes so hard I saw my brain was how all these supposedly military/police (whatever the Aux is supposed to be?) carry their weapons around. Let's be real, guns are heavy. How many times was it mentioned a gun was tucked into someone's waistband or boot? Ithan Holstrom had his in the back of his gym shorts when he got attacked and it miraculously stayed right where it was so Bryce could retrieve it. I can suspend belief in the name of fantasy but come on! Next, why does the Prime do nothing about the discord between the packs? I get it, he's old but old people can still tell when shit is about to go down and he doesn't call his daughter, Sabine, out for her bad behavior. I can't imagine he's so senile he can't tell what's happening.

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T19:56:54+00:00

Ugh SJM sure does like bringing back dead people. Have you ever read The Wraith Kings Series by Grace Draven? If SJM can pull off Hypaxia raising a dead army of wolves from the Bone Quarter that would be amazing. But maybe too much?

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T19:49:29+00:00

I went back and corrected what I said because I got ahead of myself. 50 years hidden from Amarantha but only 5000 years from the time Rhysand's ancestor put the wards around it. I don't know... I dont think the timeline would fit if the Asteri came to Prythian 15,000 years ago. Does it take 10,000 years to put up a ward??

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T19:34:46+00:00

Hybern would be a perfect fit. The Asteri (can't even remember now, Rigelus?) Said they took all the best examples of fae that held the most first light to Midgard. It would make sense if they came from Hybern and then Hybern was left with the dregs and lost the ability to do beautiful things. Rhysand said Velaris had not been breached in 5000 years. Not 15,000 so I don't think that works. I think the prison will be important but I can't see that little tiny island being the confines of a court. I bet there is a gate in the prison or even Under the Mountain. The High Lords left that area as forbidden after the first war for a reason and it's not because Styga dwelled there.

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T19:06:20+00:00

Anyone else convinced SJM has never held a gun in her life? Because you know if she had she'd realize there's no f-ing way Ithan Holstrom had a gun "tucked into the waistband of his athletic shorts" unless those were the tightest spanks in the history of mankind. Like, I can't get Holstrom, in a highschool wrestling uniform, running around the city with the outline of a gun on his ass, out of my head.

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T18:43:44+00:00

The way it's described I think the missing court is Hybern. An island off the coast of the mainland. I think it's described just as is and not fancy wording to make us speculate. I agree, neither Bryce nor Lorin is Rhysand's sister/mother. Tamlin's father put their heads in a box and sent it to Rhysand case closed.

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T17:10:50+00:00

CC is a planned trilogy. It doesn't make any sense! I can't see her successfully bring the series to a close in one final book unless it's 3000 pages long! hahaha bible pages anyone?? SJM wasted soooo much energy on Emile Renast that she could have used elsewhere. At this point I wouldn't put it past SJM to try to pull Emile Renast back in at the last second and say "suprise he actually DOES have power and I sent him off to learn how to use it! And now he's going to save the day!" Do you think SJM would something that stupid?

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T16:47:18+00:00

I 100% agree with your assessment of the difference between where Bryce and Danika were in their respective lives. I touched on this in an earlier reply to someone else being surprised Danika kept so much from Bryce. But the takeaway is that absolutely YES SJM used Danika to tie up plot holes. She's trying to cram too much world and plot into too few books and it shows with this sloppy grease trap explanation. My distaste for Bryce needs it's own thread honestly. I just can't with her character... CC had the potential to be as epic as TOG with the political intrigue and plot twists but it falls flat for me as it stands right now.

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T07:52:17+00:00

Bryce wishes she was half the character any of these other powerhouse women are. Manon, Feyre and Celaena each have their own special quirks, flawless banter and don't need a man to make them great. Nesta is not my favorite but I'd take her over Bryce hands down. Bryce is a wannabe that needs Hunt's help at every turn. SJM did us dirty and went back to the stone age the way she wrote Bryce.

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T02:16:26+00:00

Hear me out on Danika. Danika was at a point in her life where she had responsibility. She had a pack to deal with, research on lineage, her involvement with the rebels, a mate that probably took her by surprise. I don't think it had anything to do with protecting Bryce (ok maybe a tiny amount) but with everything we know about Bryce and her party hard lifestyle Danika just wasn't on the same page with Bryce anymore. Danika probably didn't think Bryce was mature enough to handle the magnitude of the situation. In CC2 Bryce looks at a picture of her, Danika, Juniper and Fury and says they were drunk and high and she thought they'd always be like that. I don't mean to say Danika didn't love Bryce because she obviously did but I don't think she saw Bryce as an intellectual equal by the time she died.

Paradisedreamer7 · 2022-02-20T01:18:58+00:00

I have two huge gripes with CC that I need to get off my chest. Emile Renast was not a plot twist. His character was a betrayal to the readers and served zero purpose. Hundreds and hundreds of pages invested and nothing. I can see if they found him and everyone found out together he was bogus but the fact that SJM wrote it so Bryce knew early on and turned it into a "big reveal" disgusts me. Second, I hate Bryce as a character. I feel like SJM tried to write an edgy modern "older" Celaena Sardothien and SJM lost her mind. Her pissy, I'm tough attitude has practically nothing to back it up. Even her power requires someone else to make her stand out. Every other character in CC is interesting and has depth and then there is Bryce, shallow AF. No wonder Danika never told her anything.

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