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Between Family (The City Between, #9)
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It did not matter that I had already read it. I still had to read this right after book 8. I simply couldn’t leave it there. The way this book ends gives me hope concerning the plotline I care about most, and so maybe I can take a break before book 10. No good reading it in a haze of I-just-want-this-to-turn-out-somehow-right-regarding-my-favorite-character again. I wanna appreciate all the good stuff.
There’s a lot of it. Daniel and Morgana’s relationship makes me happy. The werewolves calling Lord Sero progressively worse names and having outdated vocabularies makes me happier yet. Old Mad Bloke is here doing his thing. It’s a cozy book all around, despite the stupid magical arena which I hate. Everyone else hates it and thinks it’s stupid too, which kind of helps. There’s a lot of chilling in the house, recovering and bonding, with just occasional actiony interludes. I kind of love it.
The ending is wildly cathartic in at least two ways, and also it’s Zero’s book.
I really like Zero as a character, even though I don’t ever talk about him, seems like. He’s very interesting. And…and I really like him, is basically all. He was more front-and-center in the earlier books, but for a while now he’s been sidelined by JinYeong and even Athelas a bit, and I’m just really happy that this is his book.
No one mentioned “the Troika” a single time in this book, and thank goodness because I think of the Russian vehicle every time. Try imagining Zero, Athelas, and JinYeong as a horse-drawn carriage. Just…just try it. Isn’t it awful?
Oh, also, a thing happened at the end of this book that I’d realized reluctantly was gonna happen—I’d resigned myself to it, even, despite my initial violently negative feelings toward the very idea—but it happened in such a perfectly typical Pet-and-JinYeong sort of way. I…liked it, guys. I liked it.
How does W. R. Gingell make me love everything I hate? It’s an honest question.
There’s a lot of it. Daniel and Morgana’s relationship makes me happy. The werewolves calling Lord Sero progressively worse names and having outdated vocabularies makes me happier yet. Old Mad Bloke is here doing his thing. It’s a cozy book all around, despite the stupid magical arena which I hate. Everyone else hates it and thinks it’s stupid too, which kind of helps. There’s a lot of chilling in the house, recovering and bonding, with just occasional actiony interludes. I kind of love it.
The ending is wildly cathartic in at least two ways, and also it’s Zero’s book.
I really like Zero as a character, even though I don’t ever talk about him, seems like. He’s very interesting. And…and I really like him, is basically all. He was more front-and-center in the earlier books, but for a while now he’s been sidelined by JinYeong and even Athelas a bit, and I’m just really happy that this is his book.
No one mentioned “the Troika” a single time in this book, and thank goodness because I think of the Russian vehicle every time. Try imagining Zero, Athelas, and JinYeong as a horse-drawn carriage. Just…just try it. Isn’t it awful?
Oh, also, a thing happened at the end of this book that I’d realized reluctantly was gonna happen—I’d resigned myself to it, even, despite my initial violently negative feelings toward the very idea—but it happened in such a perfectly typical Pet-and-JinYeong sort of way. I…liked it, guys. I liked it.
How does W. R. Gingell make me love everything I hate? It’s an honest question.
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October 25, 2022
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October 25, 2022
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