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

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I mean, I don't think anyone expected a huge jump in quality, but it would be interesting to see what improvements the author made. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

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 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. oro will be referred to as either wonderbread or an old man or my personal favorite, “walking chastity belt,” or some combination of the three. i need to be really stoic and vaguely reference to chivalry for a bit, so you can just get fucked, i guess. 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!I have my criticisms about how in books like this, race only feels skin deep, but an attempt was made.

Alex Aster is an author of YA fiction as well as award-winning middle grade fiction, including the Emblem Island series, which was published to critical acclaim. One of them is such a huge revelation, and yet it's just brushed over as if it's nothing with very little explanation. If a major criticism of Lighlark is how Isla is stupid and makes rash, emotional decisions, then the major criticism of Nightbane is how she's now aware she's stupid and makes rash, emotional decisions, feels insecure and stupid about it, and then continues to do so anyways. 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.As certain death races toward Lightlark and secrets from the past begin to unravel, Isla must weigh her responsibility to her people against the whims of the most dangerous traitor of all: her heart. Aster has a dedicated audience of more than 905,500 followers on TikTok with 100 million views, and 60K followers on Instagram.

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 graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied creative writing.alex aster tries to ratchet up the stakes of this book with no regard for how to effectively impart danger, distress or anguish. Yeah, we get some numbers, and some explanations to what happened to certain realms during the curses, but not in a way that feels realistic or weighty.

it's all stacked so precariously atop itself that it'll collapse if alex aster tries to introduce another plot twist. It kind of felt like the author was spinning her wheels while simultaneously rushing to the finish line. As we learn more about the world, we see more people, and they're more diverse than in the first book. even historic lore is obfuscated in service of a surprise reveal that the book speedruns through in the final 3%.A big issue with this book is that the characters have access to this super powerful Wildling Elixer that will heal most ailments, so there will be many situations where the characters are torn up beyond repair, and then it carries no real weight bc you know they'll be fine later. 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. A lot of people seemed to think the first book was Like That just because it was a pet project she’d had since being a teen, and that writing another might force her to have original thoughts.