Nightbane (The Lightlark Saga Book 2): Alex Aster (The Lightlark Saga, 2)

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seductive haunts instead of embracing her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. no matter how much aster tries to get me to invest in grim and his attraction to isla, i'm never moved. Now, in the wake of a crushing betrayal, Isla finds herself hungry for distraction, preferring to frequent Lightlark's seductive haunts instead of embracing her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. alex aster tries to ratchet up the stakes of this book with no regard for how to effectively impart danger, distress or anguish.

It's meant to be a little silly, but I really don't get the point in bringing it up or saying it aloud when the book doesn't attempt to interface with the actual politics of war or democracy or monarchies in any meaningful way. I expect at least one very cringy attempt at steamy smut between Isla and Grim, not Isla and Oro - he's blonde! One of them is such a huge revelation, and yet it's just brushed over as if it's nothing with very little explanation.i don’t particularly like isla and i don’t like either of the “love interests,” oro or grim, but she should not have been with oro. anyways, long story short, turns out isla was getting it on w rhysand before all the events of book 1 but things went south and so he took away her memories (after she asked him to, I KNEW IT! the book has grim behave violently, often contrary to isla's emotional instincts, then retroactively justifies everything he does. I know that sometimes just having ideas only serves the romance works fine in books, but I really kept expecting to have at least something meaningful come out of the book, and for how often those ideas were introduced, I thought that'd be it.

They weren't as lengthy and layered with a long ass explanation that made no sense as Lightlark, but there was a series of fuckass plot twists at the end of Nightbane. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Once again, it feels like the politics of the rulers only exist to make moral quandaries for the main character amd to be catalysts for her relationships with the other two love interests. grim's brutality, possessiveness, his unwillingness to share information makes him utterly insufferable. the copy i read said it was 600 pages long, so that’s the metric i’m going to describe it by (it also felt 600 pages long), even though goodreads says it’s only 300 and something.

Alex Aster’s intricate world expands after the riveting culmination of the Centennial games, delving more deeply into Isla’s memories of her past, as her future hurtles toward two possible fates. As we learn more about the world, we see more people, and they're more diverse than in the first book. It's obviously supposed to be a big deal but the symbolism doesn't have any root to an idea or an emotion. One in particular (you know which one I'm talking about) really /really/ has no significance in terms of the narrative and was just there so it could fulfill a trope that gets the girlies' hearts beating. i found it to be pretty shallow and silly, sparse in its worldbuilding and preoccupied with romance but.