To Complainers of POBAB
Listen, I’m with a lot of you that this book was about 600 pages too long, and it’s starting to feel like a word salad cash grab with a lot of confusing and repetitive moments. However, I am so confused how so many of you are team F&F vs FBAA or team Nyktos vs team Casteel. The parallels in these books are insanely similar, and while that’s part of the point, there’s also so many similarities compared within the book by the characters themselves that you all have ignored because the plot line in the last book (or few) just dragged and sucked. Nyktos absolutely gets overprotective of Sera like Casteel (hello Attes, he’s states/growls multiple times at him for looking at Sera and makes threats, and the same for the godling Kars she trains with). He goes ballistic and kills a primal when Kolis has her and loses his shit too. There has also been times when Nyktos tells Sera she can’t do something and then she goes and does it and he gets mad. Sera even says this herself to Poppy that Cas reminds her of Nyktos and the two of them as a couple too.
While Nyktos has been through a lot of trauma as well, he has at least gotten some “reprieve” between the trauma occurrences, whereas Casteel’s trauma is in a way more condensed timeline and has heavily involved the person he’s loved way more frequently. Let’s also not forget that Poppy and Kieran both lied to him/kept a major secret from him and that would cause anyone to be upset and be doubtful, especially after the onset of a ton more power and thinking you were going to lose your heart mate? Shit I be fucking a skeptical wreck too.
Poppy is also childish and does a lot of reckless shit too that apparently Casteel is supposed to overlook all his PTSD from and accept because “that’s just who she is and she’s being a badass.” I was actually MORE pissed at Poppy than I was Casteel for this last book. At least I understood why he was being a bit nonsensical. Meanwhile Poppy continued to ignore outside input and didn’t want to have tough conversations either for fear of upsetting Cas. And lo and behold, if she had just had those convos he maybe wouldn’t have lost his shit at the WRONG moment, but beforehand. I actually agreed multiple times with Cas’ logic that they were stronger together, and Kolis wasn’t in love with her, and that she shouldn’t be going alone. I actually knew that’s how this book was going to end, because it felt as obvious to me as it was to Casteel and apparently no one else in that book (Sera, Attes, and Nyktos included) that that’s how it was going down.
Anyway. End rant. I don’t want to see Kieran and Poppy, I do think Poppy & Casteel are end game with their shared trauma & shared love. Kieran deserves his own life and love, even if I do enjoy them as a throuple and would enjoy seeing that played out more. I am also mad with this book, but am too far in that I’ll just read this final book anyway, and it better be what I want lol, which is a lot of major redemptions, the final fucking end of the drawn out Kolis arc (and Isbeth, like come on).