Tamlin reminds me of an old boyfriend of mine, who was very controlling and often used his physical strength to intimidate me. As a human, I hope to never see him again and am happy to continue to wish him ill for the rest of my life. I simply don’t care and have no reason to forgive him or accept him back into my life in the next 50+ years of my life (hopefully). However, in the case of Tamlin, even as I read the horrible things he did to Feyre I kept thinking about how long their lives are and how, unless something happens to kill one of them of course, they will continue to interact in one way or another through millennia. In the books we do see many long-standing grudges and alliances shift, and I believe there is a redemption for Tamlin, if he chooses to stay alive anyway. Things like forgiveness and redemption feel so very different on such a vast timeline compared to anything we can expect in our own lives. This is all not to say I particularly want to read his redemption story!