Katyana's Reviews > Reborn

** spoiler alert ** I still don't like her. To be honest, I'm not sure she's redeemable. And the first half of this book was a fucking slog through her bullshit.

The amazing ego and entitlement of a character deciding to withhold info from someone they care about, to "protect" them, will never be tolerable to me. It is an astonishing level of selfishness, and the fact that those characters nearly always believe they are being a self-sacrificing martyr makes it a particularly awful shit sandwich.

But the plot of this book, despite the shitty FMC, was so good I couldn't bear to give it less than 4 stars. This despite the super paranoid FMC being TSTL about the obvious bad guy.

But this book also introduced another character I hate: Sammy. Frankly, she should be executed immediately, because she has now nearly killed two members of the supe community in a fit of temper, and people are already so prejudiced about the cambions' demonic nature that she's going to confirm their worst fears and get all her people executed.

I will say, though, that I did have a bit of sympathy for Kaliya in a single respect: being proven right about something that has gotten you labeled crazy and paranoid for a century...that's rough. Being disregarded by the people who love you best, that hurts. So, some empathy there, definitely.

And the other reason I feel comfortable with 4 stars is that once we were on the other side of the bullshit, I really liked Kaliya and Raphael as a team. They make good partners. Good enough partners that I hope she's done with lies and selfishly making decisions for Raphael.