/lit/ - Literature

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>Reposted from /trash/

Alright, newfuck WoF guy back again; I've gone to 7 hours in, now. Nearly through it seems the first book.
Just hit the heartfelt goodbyes with Peril and Kestrel. Mostly Peril. Kestrel missed the memo that this is the apology section, and continued being a raging bitch.

Peril has pretty swiftly taken over the 'favorite character' slot for me. Albeit, some nervousness she's going to lose some interesting aspects of her character now, given her expressed desire for some 'redemption' type deal.
Her interactions with Clay are especially cute. My dumbfuck rockboy is popular with the ladies, it seems.
I'm glad she got a hug at the end there. This way, I don't have to do it, major burns and all.
10/10, would wife anyway, if my dick turns to ash so be it.

On the subject, Clay's immunity to fire did feel a touch like an asspull. I'm not necessarily opposed to it, as I'm a sucker for such destined love types of deals, but they really ought to've built it up earlier. There's no real reason it shouldn't've been mentioned that he was at least resistant to fire before. Seems like a last-minute decision, or worse, like character powers just pop up as needed for plot devices.
Still, it made for some real wholesome scenes.

Osprey was the only good adult dragon. He dies immediately. This is a shame. Based lad, talked smack to the queen and gets shanked for it.

The prisoners singing brought a tear to my eye. I'm a sucker for that kind of thing. Melancholic songs especially.

This might've been some misunderstanding on my part, but it sounds like Burn didn't smash just one egg, but possibly every Skywing egg born that year.
Might've just been sloppy wordplay, but that was the implication I got from what Scarlet said to her.

All in all, though, it got a quite large stretch more interesting.
There were a few 'deus ex' moments, so it's not going too highly, but the story definitely picked up and got more interesting, with much better character interactions to boot.