Nicole

Like I agree that this book's dealing with, I'm going to say older themes, more mature themes was such a fun, refreshing deviation, devastation deviation from what we normally read.

And actually, I think even Sarah mentioned that at, by the end of ballad, she wants us to think about rave and con as mom and dad, not as like, and I do like, that's exactly, it's just, it was so breathtakingly well done.

I love a little nerd.

But anyway, he uses that skill of his to unlock the last time that Vea used her bangle.

Just to really make it hurt for us readers, let's go ahead and go through the memory.

Vea is kneeling inside of Austrin's office, her father.

This is shortly after Elowen's pa turned down the arranged marriage between Elowen and Tyrof.

Austrin tells Vea that his miskin, quote, foretold the world's end if the Navans die at any hand other than your own.

When Vea refuses to, you know, kill these people, Tyroth holds her down while a mindweft, Mior, which is one of Vea's childhood friends, is forced to enter Vea's mind and remove Vea's compassion, empathy, sadness, and morality.

Until she is nothing but a vessel of compliance for her pa to use as he pleases.

We hated Austrin.

Last book, this man, oh, he sucks.

which Vea is told to go to Arithia, poison the Navan family, except for Elowen Rave Navan.

The memory then cuts to Vea journeying across the plains through a secret entrance, glamoring herself as somebody else and poisoning Adric, Adora, and Hadeon by putting the blood of a Zotha beetle on their toothbrushes.

When Vea makes it back to Dom, her emotions kick back in and she literally cannot handle what she has done.

She begs her Pa to end her life, but instead he has Mori enter her mind again and erase the last 30 cycles.

And to finish it off, Osern has Maior beheaded so that there's no one but himself and Tyroth, also assuming Karak, who know what happened to the Novan family.

That entire sequence was epic.

Again, I keep going to operatic.

We haven't gotten confirmed by the end of Ballad of Falling Dragons.