A man didn’t reveal his true nature until after you were married, you say? Shocking. Maybe you should have reconsidered being such a cruel and manipulative sister, babes. Maybe karma doesn’t like your ass.
“We’ve always been in competition for our father’s attention” after reading Alessandra’s book is genuinely hilarious. There was no competition. Alessandra knows who she is and knew what she wasn’t, that being the favorite. Chrysantha is so beyond full of herself she’s completely blinded herself to reality. She was fighting against a brick wall for her father’s attention. And the fact that she thinks cultivating a relationship with Alessandra at HER LEISURE is viable further proves how daft and blind she is. Alessandra doesn’t just hate her. Alessandra LOATHES her. “She didn’t even know we were playing the same game.” THEN WHY WERE YOU COMPETING WITH HER? I reserved judgement of Chrysantha in the last book because we only perceived her through her letters and what others said of her, and I knew her book was next. I could have gone with my gut. Getting through this shit until her character arc is going to be rough. Though, I do feel for her predicament with her husband. That’s messed up no matter who it is.
I just cannot get over the fact that Chrysantha continuously assumes Alessandra doesn’t deserve her happiness because she “didn’t earn it” “as Chrysantha did”. Sis, you’re both oppressed women in a patriarchal hellhole. She’s suffered just as much as you for being a woman just like you. Literally every woman has. THATS why she’s passing the laws she is. THATS why she’s liberating women in the ways she is. Chrysantha prides herself on convincing everyone she’s so daft and docile, but truly, she is. It’s not an act. It’s not a ruse. She’s actually a dumb bitch. And the only thing worse than a dumb bitch is a dumb bitch who hates other women simply because they perceive those women as competition.
I hope their father suffers.
“Enjoy it while it lasts.” I immediately cringed from the sheer arrogance alone.
I don’t know, I kind of just realized I’m a hypocrite. It was hard for me to trust authentic connection again, too, after being traumatized by so many men. Maybe I hate Chrysantha so much because I see so much of myself in her.
The resolution in book two makes the wrapping of events in book one look like a slow, leisurely stroll through the park. I thought it was a bit fast paced in book one, but holy crap. Yeah, book two was happening and then boom it wasn’t. Little bit of whiplash.
I didn’t love Eryx as a character. He seemed sort of one dimensional to me up until he started “liking” Chrysantha, and even then… lackluster.
Chrysantha kind of grew on me, I guess. I like that we didn’t have her show up to the wedding and then boom her and Alessandra are BFFs. Though, I would have liked to see just a touch more of that relationship developing rather than just a handful of letters and one visit.
It could have been better, but it was fun.
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