It’s coming. Nimrod has been poking at Kate’s borders so
many times and she cannot keep ignoring it. She cannot let this go. It is time
for a war.
I love this series!
I love it love it love it love it. And this book
excellently continues this whole awesome series. This was one of those books
where I got it, retreated to my bedroom and snarled at anyone who dared to
interrupt me
Friends, family, beloved husband – I love you all. I just
love the book more. Come back in a couple of days when I’ve finished this and
maybe I will notice humanity again. Maybe
This includes sleep. Sleep can take a back seat, I have
this book. This is amazing. This is my life now. Bury me with this book
Kate faces some absolutely excellent conflict here –
influenced by her magical claiming of the city of Atlanta. There’s an excellent
magical explanation for this in the growing world building of this series (more
of that later because it’s awesome) but it wasn’t so forced as to change Kate’s
character. Even without the magic, I could see Kate moving down some of these
pathways – ok not all of them (and the woo-woo driving her to dominate and
control what I hers) – but her being generally hacked off by people challenging
her, giving her shit and not coming close to respecting her for all the
sacrifices she has made.
This is a long series and through that series we’ve had
Kate save the city and the world quite regularly. We’ve also seen people fail
her, a lot, over and over again. She has proven herself time and time again
even as the people she have saved continue to fail her, not trust her and often
not make her much of a priority for them. This is one of the reasons why Kate
and Curran left the pack in a previous book. So, for me, seeing Kate push back
and respond to, for example, Jim threatening her with
“If I ever turn
into my father, you will kneel and pledge yourself to me, Jim.”
And I cheered. I did. Because this was past time doing
this. It also made her power creep complicated. Because part of her was very
justified in wanting to push back against the insults she takes for constantly
saving people with her vast power and then having the people she just saved
being terrified by that same power. But that’s the complexity – because she is
powerful, never more so than in this book – she is terrifying in her power and
even though she’s never given anyone reason to doubt her the mere fact she can
destroy the entire city makes her a terrifying force. Especially with the woo-woo
now being such a pressure on her she has some really excellent conflicts where
she is aware she’s circling the abyss
