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Oh, Captain Berk, I knew I liked you for a reason.

Ok, This is funny. I actually regret we don't get to see more Miss Know-It-All columns. Seeing the misunderstandings between our favourite TI and humans isn't always fun but these little random encounters?? So funny! A bit gross but it shows that the book needs more light moments like this.

I don't know what's worse - knowing elementals are going to punish the humans or Simon pointing out not all humans are responsible for the sins of those... few? The set up of this book just feels all wrong. In so many ways. Or maybe I just don't like it.

UGHG. See, this is what I am talking about. Simon just called it an act of bravery - I called it the height of stupidity. But when Meg does something I would call brave, he calls it stupid. Obviously, we are not meshing properly (with Simon or the book).

Look, I liked the fact this romance is slow - glacial, almost non-existent slow and doesn't require the "steam" everyone is used to by now. But there is a difference between a careful romance and stupid romance. I already have some beef with the wolf, pun intended, so him acting like this and saying this really annoying... uf. Sigh.

You're making the enemy too stupid. Now that we're seeing random side characters from HFHL we can also see the way the author handles them and it's not very glamorous. They're simple, outright hateful and visibly bad characters. They don't have lives or reasons, they have only hate. And reducing your enemies into a caricature also hurts your "good" guys in the long run.