All the mortals nearby screamed, some of them fleeing for the stairs. Itempas threw up an arm as he was flung farther back. Ahad, beside her, cried out and vanished, reappearing near me. Even Kahl staggered, the blur around him bending away from the sheer blazing force of her. I could feel the heat of her fire tightening my skin from where I was, ten feet away. Anyone closer was probably risking burns. And Glee herself…
I am bored. I am reading an N. K. Jemisin novel and I am bored. This happened with Broken Earth too. She really fucking sucks at endings. She tries to make everything fair, and surprising, yanking power away from powerful actors, giving it surprising underdogs who have radical ambitions about what they want to achieve with that power, only to take it away at last moment, sometimes by having the underdog suddenly come to a realisation of how they were wrong, and are loved or whatever nonsense. It is infuriating, and formulaic, and, yes, I hate that I am saying this, womanly. Not that women are likely to do this kind of shit but the idea of woman has been culturally coded to mean this. And I hate it. She has so much potential, to do some truly surprising things.
