Sofie’s Reviews > Dark Rise > Status Update

i. okay. yeah okay. mmhmm. i fucking knew it first of all cause what do you mean the guy with black hair and black eyes is the champion of the light, that was fishy from the GET GO. but then also his connection to james and desire to use the collar and the really strange and sudden “love” between him and katherine, it all makes so much sense!!!!!!!! i love when you can feel a twist on the tip of your tongue

i have not checked in because i feel insane i’ve just been reading and panicking like a madwoman but I NEED IT TO BE KNOWN THAT I DONT WANT VIOLET TO DIE

the way that will has had a total of 2 solo conversations with james and already sees him more clearly than anyone else in the world simply because he asked the questions no one else bothered to??????? how many times did simon try to brand him and does he remember his past lives. and the answers he got told him EVERYTHING. now that’s the level of character writing through dialogue i expect from c.s. pacat

i have been speechless for the past few chapters what the FUCK??!!!?!!?!!!!!!! this kind of tone shift is exactly what this book needed to really kick itself into high gear and slough off all its dead weight
i hope will gets PISSED now and goes on a murder spree. he deserves it

theres something so defiantly powerful but also sinisterly tragic about simon trying and failing to brand james SEVERAL TIMES. he can’t scar, so he can’t show any evidence of his pain, but he also can’t be truly owned like simon’s other cronies. what an interesting double-edged sword

ah the intimacy of a stabbing scene my favorite trope

“no one could look at him and not want to possess him” HELLO???? there’s the c.s. pacat deliciousness i’ve been waiting for. the perfect mix of sexually charged and deeply tragic i’ve come to know from the way she writes her characters

okay. this trio (and the promise of more james content very soon) is saving it for me i am 1000x more interested now

i am about halfway through this book and i still do not understand why people are SO obsessed with it…..something big better happen soon cause i am slogging along in a way i did not expect. idk if it’s the ya writing or if i just had skewed expectations but i’m just struggling to connect to most of these characters. i’m by far the most interested in james, who we’ve only seen like twice

okay. everything and everybody is fishy as FUCK and i do not trust the order. there's secrets with the cup ceremony, there's secrets with the elder steward, there's secrets with james and his connection to jannick and the stewards. james was ABSOLUTELY trained by the stewards at first, and i cannot WAIT to find out what made him betray them. it's slow going but i'm still invested enough