Samie Foster’s Reviews > Children of Blood and Bone > Status Update

Approaching the end. Really excited to see how this all turns out. Besides that awful plot twist in the last third that hijacked the story for a little while, things are back in track and the book has been fun. Far from perfect, obviously. The plot twist still feels like a slap in the face. But somehow it's still enjoyable as a whole.

There two typos in tonight's read. I kinda love it when I see typos in popular books. It reminds me that big authors can make the same mistakes as smaller indie writers. And we're not all perfect! 😊

I'm not going to lie. The love story this author is pushing is messed up. He's part of a regime who slaughters her people and puts the children into slavery, but she falls in love with him. This is like a slave falling for the slave owner. Why does this exist in this novel?! The book was so good until this bizarro & somewhat shockingly offensive love story wedged itself in there.

This guy spent half book as a blood thirsty animal and almost succeeded in his quest to kill Ziel 30 pages ago. Now he's acting like he turned over a new.leaf that same girl he tried to kill is falling in love with him? I can understand forgiveness. But love? Women don't fall in love with their attempted murderers no matter how charming. It's a fact of life.

So this borderline psychotic bad guy has flipped to a calm understanding good guy on a dime. And the book is really trying hard to make it work. And I want it to work bc it's a interesting story arc. But the author isn't selling it well. I'll get used to the 2.0 version of this character over time I'm sure, but it's hard to believe this change of heart at this point in the book.

So Inan can read minds and somehow accidentally read all the memories of Ziele 's life. But now he's often thinking back to them like how cute was as a child or the times she proved herself a beautiful capable young woman with fondness. And it's kinda of creepy. Bc he doesn't know her and he's also attracted to her while wanting to murder her. There's just so many levels of wrong here.

So the main bad guy just became a good guy. Who's going to be the villain now?