3/5: Adam is dealing with his tangled family history and Vic is swept into the elves’ feuds and family drama, and too much is happening for them individually to deal with whatever is between them together. It felt a bit drawn out and overly complicated, pointing blinking neon arrows at the two men WHO LIKE EACH OTHER BUT WHO ARE FROM VERY DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND THERE’S A LOT TO THINK ABOUT OKAY??!!11 They figured it out in the last chapters only to fall into a cliffhanger (literally), so we’ll see what happens in the last book. Just like book 1, this was super simple language–not a bad thing...

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5/5: The happy sigh I let out when I started reading this… *chinhands* The book is a collection of varied writing, everything from speculative poems to a novella-length post-canon story about Shuos Jedao and Kel Cheris which was by far my absolute favorite and I CAN’T BELIEVE IT STOPPED THERE WTF I NEED MOAR!! Each piece is accompanied by an author’s note. I still don’t know how the fuck calendrical warfare works but I also don’t care because *motions incoherently* everything. This very much reads like fanservice where the author is the biggest fan of the books. Highly enjoyable, very much re...