Kirinna > Recent Status Updates

- I don't like that, besides looking alike, the nations are cartoonish in their character
- did like a certain dinner event on one of the isles
- well this might have been one of the book's biggest moments
- back at Basgiath. (Right now) it's good again.

- every time a new nation is introduced they wear the same things, have the same hair, do the same stuff, etc. Imagine introducing the French like this: "Everyone was wearing berets and had a baguette under their arms. There was a little girl who cradled her baguette in fear". Gets old real fast, but otherwise I like this part of the story because we learn new things about the world and a certain character is missing

"Do you remember when we had this same fight but it was me and Cat?" Yes. The reader remembers, the author remembers, so why bother with this, again?

- Am still annoyed because of that scene and the way everything feels random right now
- No other author has managed to make their writing feel this much like a rollercoaster ride, but she does.
She could literally write "and then Vi woke up and it had all been a bad dream" or "it was the gardener and he was twins" on the next page and I wouldn't even be surprised

- why did she feel the need to write this? Yes there has been cruelty before but there's a difference between horror and disgust. Really ruined the scene for me, she just wanted to shock the reader and this feels cheap.
- hopefully this was the last bad surprise in this book

- loved the Humor
- loved the descriptions of New fantasy Lands
- am thoroughly disgusted by this single event on Page

- I liked the event(s) in the abandoned city
- politics in this is astonishingly bad
- guess the quest starts here?

- this series taught me that I don't have a voyeurism fetish
- really don't care about every one of their exes, even though she managed to make me care about kitty

- Varrish 2.0
- "bruh but what about the sex rules don't forget those"
- in the middle of a war but yes now is a good time to be petty and pout (no not talking about Vi this isnt IF)

+ so far it's good! Much better than Iron Flames (which was a 2star for me)
+ I like her flight descriptions, especially the winter flight scenes
+ there's been only one thing that was dumb enough to annoy me, nice
+ no ladycat drama
+ liked the humor and the dragon banter
+ a clever Vi idea (!)
- she seems to do lots of foreshadowing with chapter intro quotes again
- politics in this is like in kindergarten

- Starting this bad boy now, and already am impressed that there's a list of characters included. Because that was really missing from the last two, considering how many characters there are
- the cover really grew on me
- appreciate that it's shorter than IF, hopefully it's much better! (plz)
- I'm intrigued who'll die this time (hopefully not Imogen! she's my fav together with Mira)

- Vi being special again
- finale was actually better than most of part 2, not really saying something considering how bad that was, but wanted to mention it anyway because at least it's going out on a bang
- Who's Lynx again? Some person Yarros will kill in book 3 I guess?
- Imogen didn't even get the time of day in the end, a shame
- Welcome to our fucked up family - u kidding me?

Something happened!! interesting things happen again. Vi asking actual clever questions for once in this book?

fantastic.

the hype around onyx storm release is really astonishing, just google "onyx storm" and there's a smol animation for you!
After the lackluster iron flame I'm pretty hyped again, looking forward to this being on par with the first one

Awful!

- viele Verdächtige die es gewesen sein könnten
- "Wir lesen Lolita, American Psycho, Dracula" -> "Das ist Standardlektüre der Hellsing Bewegung, habt ihr es mal mit "Mein Kampf" probiert?
OMG Dracula wird mit hitlers buch verglichen??
"Vampire Genozid" aber Vampire werden gleichzeitig als blutrünstige irre Monster beschrieben vom Protag?
Nooo du kannst doch nicht reale Minderheiten auf eine Stufe mit ihnen stellen

"Das Hellsing-Tattoo war ein ähnlich deutliches Statement wie das Hakenkreuz. Es steht für den Genozid an den Vampiren."

insane that a crypto NFT ai bro was hired for the cover of "Alchemised", not even talking about the baffling typography.
We should not support this and quite frankly this is f-cking over the author who deserved better.

Currently in a mixed mood where I want to read romance but am disappointed in my recent reads in that genre.
Next week is Onyx Storm release and I'm finishing Iron Flame over here, desperately hoping the third one will be better because boyyy do I not like the second.
Why am I reading the third then? First one was ok and I was intrigued so atp the second could have just been a one-time blunder. (plz!)

- I think there's been like a hundred pages without Sloane and Imogen, like she just forgot those.
- There's "the collector" from the marvel guardians movies
- Griffin mountain hike, now Sloane doesn't hate her
- Lewella or whatevs
- Arrows in sb
- runes
- envy
- crown
- does the power to amplify emotion help her...? NO!
- horny
- it's not over yet. I can't. Why is this so much worse than book 1? Wth happened?

- "Bruh our attraction is stronger than our hate." What hate?? The teen angst vi has? "Muh chin"
- Catty Ladycat with the power to amplify emotions. What's next, the power to cry? Winning the Dresden Files price for sexism with these female charas
- "Bruh why does he come to me when the obvious choice would be the woman in red next to me?" You baboon
- "Luminary" -> ???
- random arena fight scene for lolz

- Mira is still a good character thank you, reacts like a normal human being
- whining while training
- uuuh you have an ex (just like vi) but that's not allowed
- "every pilot would love to kill you because of ur mom" -> book 1 line
- what is her problem at this point? just mad at him 4 fun? please don't protect me, why didn't you protect me
- Dress-up with Excat for Viscount. Btw why wasn't that translated again?

- fuck "this place".
- finally
- no death feels earned at this point, I don't even know if they are really dead
- horny scene (again this doesn't fit right here)
- I have a scar for you luv
- btw luv I'm rich
- Wow Andarna is just like vi (in a bad way)
- wuuh? We are in part 2?? I thought it was over by now
- why isn't this 2 whole books? With tight editing? why would you do this
- bloooodmagic (whatever)

- horn (not the right time)
- vi doesn't know what the paper-thin guy who tortures her wants to do with her (hint: it's torture again)
- kittycat
- this whole thing never gets explained (McGonagall winking at vi and then + Kaori having a nice scene
+ Rhi having a nice scene
+ heist2!! finally
- idiot, this was coming a mile away after the nav scene
- it's torture again (again? again!)
+ warden spirit

- violet is insane now she thinks friends dying is good (stockholm?)
- a normal school day, talking about colonialism with the murderbrigade
- "you raped my privacy" is hopeful just a "choice" by the German translation and wasn't this exact quote in English, because wtf
- torture is fun (again?)
- but there's a baaaaadge
- why would they do that. why would yarros do that. Nobody questions this? Why not anybody else??

- the things I like so far:
+ Imogen. Hands down the best character currently
+ Jesinia is a close second
+ contact with scribes in general
+ Greycastle is interesting so far
+ I like that Tairn is a goodboy
+ not every day is a deadly challenge, even though it's still needlessly deadly (I swear their enemies don't kill as many soldiers as they themselves)
+ Rhianna is more cool
+ less horny
+ Mother has emotions

- Nadine (if you know you know)
- "we have to be tough for war" -> luck is much more important than skill
- atp I want her to write a book about the gryphon pilots because they sound very smart compared to this
- violet & her signet shenanigans
- "uwuwu we can't stay away longer than 3 days" -> first chapters they stay away for over 8 days
- chin (plz stop)
- every conflict could be resolved by talking

so far, this has been much worse than book 1, sadly. It's also much longer so hopefully it gets better
- Violet & Xaden "drama" is very forced, the guy is responsible for over a hundred people and she waffles on and on that he keeps secrets
- her suspecting that he has something with a women while she's in a "love triangle"
- walmart umbridge being eeevil
- Basgiath makes less and less sense
- Sloane
- Teenie dragon

- saw Violet's signet power coming a mile away
- compared to the amount of pages that sex gets, death is handled way too quickly
- after the first sex Violet was unbearable
- someone read the Twilight "honeymoon" sex scene and took the worst lessons from it
- "War Games". Nothing is taken seriously in this kingdom
- pretty exciting finale
- which had twists I did not see coming, so that's great
- 9 days until FW3