Monna’s Reviews > Fairest > Status Update

“That’s what love is supposed to feel like. All these conflicting emotions and bouts of passion that you can hardly control, and this constant twisting feeling in your stomach like you can’t decide if you want to run away from that person… or if you want to run away with them.”

Levana is the original rage-baiter. Every page brings me to new heights of ire.

“I know you care about me. You’re the only one who does.” Smiling bashfully, she dared to meet his eyes again. “First the pendant and now the quilt. It seems as though you’re trying to give me the whole world, Sir Hayle.”
He shook his head. “Only some kindness, Your Highness.”

And then she proceeds to say his wife dying is fate helping them get together… oh, I can’t wait to see her die.

“And yet it was also irksome to think that he needed two entire weeks to mourn his wife, to attach to his daughter.”

…am I meant to find her relatable or…? She is so two-dimensional - either the fragile tortured sister or the vain self-absorbed witch, fantasising about a mourning loyal man with whom she is supposedly in love with. I only see it as desire to possess something of her own. Ugh.

It has become obvious that I will read this book despite Levana’s unbearable character. She is painfully delusional and not even her sad history with her sister is going to make me sympathise with such an ugly and cruel person.