Part 1 of HOFAS - Bryce's Character Assassination
Look I love a flawed character, but my God... though this has been talked about at length, I just cannot express how truly shocked I am to see no one was exaggerating about just how insufferable she becomes.
CC1 I was like okay she's a little pick-me, a little arrogant but she's got a good heart. CC2 my threshold for her BS was declining and then plummeted pretty fast.
Her antics with Vesperus were the nail in the coffin.
So Bryce is a poorly-written Aelin but also not half as clever, endearing, or enjoyable to read?
She is all self-righteousness, all impulse, and ZERO self awareness. She has screwed over so many of her loved ones not once, not twice, but over and over due to those traits. See: Cormac, See: Hunt, See: Ruhn, See: Juniper, See: The List Goes On, See: I'm Sure There Will Be More. The Emile plot, specifically, is where I started to lose my marbles.
She's just as selfish as the people she complains about constantly?! Like yeah girl... Theia and her daughters sucked majorly... but how are you gonna stand there, be willingly dense about it, and then shortly thereafter have a temper tantrum that gets you and two strangers stuck in an open air prison with an Asteri?
All this, plus the audacity to be ungrateful and snarky about it when Nesta saves all of your ***es. "You gave me more questions then answers. We could have contained her." Please enlighten me as to your plan to do that since the first one failed massively. Actually, many of your plans fail massively. Hence why you're in this mess in the first place. But honestly, don't even get me started on Eternal City, because we will be here for a minute.
The whole thing is so ridiculous. Nesta and Azriel saved your *** multiple times, have proven to be kind (relative to the sh***y situation you keep putting them in) and instead of consider a conversation with Rhys about how you guys could combine your knowledges and skillsets to protect BOTH of your worlds, you decide to complain, dip, and screw over everyone else. She is such a MF child.
"Love will make you do that" GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
Also, I hate Tharion. I can't really stand Ethan, but he reads like a child to me, so I try to cut him some slack. Good luck out there or whatever, but the narrative can't afford this stupidity anymore.
I'm gonna keep reading though.