Thoughts on a darker shore (major spoilers don’t read if you don’t have the book yet)
I cried through most of it, they’re all happy and living their best lives I love them so much.
I absolutely love the fact that the music is a tribute to Matthias, and Nina’s holding it in her portrait. And as much as I criticize her and Hannes relationship “her king adores her” and how happy Nina seemed brought me joy. Also the fact that she made Matthiases killer the captain of her guard is such a beautiful show of character growth on both their ends. (I miss hellnik so much)
And Jespers letter was phenomenal, it’s also really funny how kaz didn’t tell him what was going on, and how he and wylan worked together on the music to make the code I love that so much.
And kaz with his gloves off on inej’s boat, and the code in the final letters, they’re so in love and they’re healing. Also the medicine that’s killing kaz is mildly concerning.
Someone else made a comment in another post about how Kaz going to Ravka for the ball could be setting up the shu Han heist that the end of rule of wolves mentions. I wonder if we get this book will kaz still be recovering from this sickness? Will this affect him long term?
Speaking of Emeil Kroon
I have a belief that unless we see the body any dead characters still have a chance of survival/coming back.
For a moment it lined up. Engineer, potential Ravkan operative, his portrait even looks like him, Zoya throwing a ball for him. For just a moment I wondered if David could be alive, and I mourned him again when Emeils identity was revealed.