I mean, her father‘s musical knowledge displayed in his confrontation with Stacey was not much less than Stacey‘s, which suggests that he was also a rebellious young man who loved rock music in his youth, or even a hippie? Especially considering his Asian identity and that his teenage years coincided with civil rights movements, that would be even more interesting.
I feel that the MC is too narrow-minded to see her friend having other good friends, and therefore fantasizes that her friend‘s friend is a hypocrite or a pain in the ass. And she‘s also not good at understanding other people‘s feelings, especially after Cassandra made a sacrifice for her to save her from being fired, and she still dares to say rude things to her, just because she has to consider taking the risk to attend your stupid party (and this party caused another forest fire! Who knows how many animals and trees were affected)
After all, she had murdered many potentially innocent people as a Claydon assassin in the past, and the organization she worked for now had only given her a chance to kill bad people, so she definitely couldn‘t be considered a good person.
A typical low-magic medieval novel, with the exception of the final superhuman, Shenkart, there‘s nothing weird or chaotic about it. It feels like the heroine has still molded some Mari sue... and her personality is extremely hypocritical and cruel, and she lacks the courage to truly face herself. Her brother is really a spoiled incestuous beast, the biggest villain in the entire book. I originally hated Orso as a reader of the old trilogy, but by the end, I actually sympathized with him a little... Shenkart‘s reversal can only be said to be a bit mechanical, and the second half of Cosca has become even more annoying than the first half. Without that sense of humor and old cunning, Marvel‘s death is really ironic to the extreme, and the last chapter is much better than the previous chapters.
In any case, it was hard for me to like the MC in the end. I even hoped for an ending where all the important characters died in a satirical manner in the last chapter. That would at least give me the refreshing feeling of a black comedy film, but this ending only gave me frustration...
I think he‘s much worse than “The Hero”