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I usually hate lysander's pov chapters, but they had something interesting in the 4,5 th books, but the first part of Lightbringer is just too hard to get through. How did you all do it?

Edit: People here love Lysander a lot, ig.

I’ve just started reading this amazing series at least a month ago, Golden Son had me shocked to hell, but this chapter is just pure Perfection ♾️/10. To observe Darrow kickoff as a naive, revenge-fuelled child and rise to become this* immovable unrelenting god of wa*r brings a tear to my dark brown eyes.
I bet even Aja gave a little clap of approval down from the grave.

“We brush away light resistance”
Oh Lysander, he never stood a bloody chance..

I did a re-read and this shit is genuinely cracking me up. Why on Earth was Mustang on demon timing during Morning Star? Compared to the rest of the books, she seemingly just had a full lock-in.

Lemme run down what she did:

1. Put belt-to-ass on Darrow
2. Jumped through a crashing ship and single handedly saved everyone
3. Leaped into a freezing lake to grab Ragnar and save his life
4. Fought two cannibalistic Obsidians
5. Nailed Cassius right in the jugular
6. Came up with most(assuming most of it was her idea since Darrow implied she posed it) of the coup at the end.
7. Fought Aja (probably the most insane thing here)
8. Cut off Octavia's head and tossed it in a room full of Gold senators.

What the fuck happened in the one year between Golden Son and Morning Star?! She has a baby at home! Why was she doing this? I get Darrow's reasoning because he's didn't know he had a child and wanted to end the war, but what was Mustang trying to do? This might've been the only book where her and Darrow traded places for the sane level-headed individual. She cannot just do this once and never do it again. We need this Mustang back in RG.

My wife just read Chapter 58. You all know the one.

She is absolutely devastated about a certain character and is currently refusing to read another page.

Since I've already finished the rest of the saga up through Light Bringer, I obviously know exactly how this plays out and the massive twist that's coming. It is taking every ounce of my willpower to keep a straight face and not give it away. She asked point blank is this person still alive or not? And she won't read it if the character is dead.

For those of you who have read with partners or friends, how did you convince them to just push through those last few chapters without giving anything away? It's killing me!

How the hell is darrow still alive, when it’s clear weapons of mass destruction especially nuclear weapons are being used every five minutes, he’s been on the front lines for 12+ years and is definitely a priority target, like I get golds want to capture him or duel him, but at this point there is no honour in duelling the reaper it’s just a death sentence

Killing Darrow would cut the heart of the republic deeply, though it would probably make the reds and other low colours even more fanatical, but he is also their best military leader and usually has sevro and the howlers around him who are the best republic military unit full stop so using a nuke on them would have taken them out as well

Howler 1 Darrow, Alive
Howler 2 Sevro, alive
Screwface, alive
All lowcolur howlers with sevro, smelling like bacon
Pebble and clown, captives of the abomination
Harpy, dead during the Lion rain
Mustang, technically a howler(wore a wolf cloak during institute)
Thistle, whose thistle
Valdir and some obsidian traitors,
Lyria, at least claims to be
Alexandar, Lysander happened
Colloway, currently on mars
Kieran, archgovernor of mars
Rags, aja happened
Toungeless, dead
Did I miss anyone?

I always liked how Morning Star ended so happy and looking forward to the good in the coming world. So I put it off and now I've decided to grow up and keep reading...

I have taken a break from reading because my heart is heavy with darrow basically becoming the villain. Him leaving Virginia and the dead Wulfgar.

Out of context and without spoilers preferably (memes welcome) please share what emotional turmoil I'm getting myself into. Did anyone else have to take breaks from these heavy books?

I think how Bligh didn’t have full rank makes him a Bronzie kinda like Ares…. Among other similarities

“Are you aware there is a species of bat on Mercury that begins life as mammalian larva? […] In order for the larva to mature to its destined form, it must find a host to grow inside and then consume when it is ready to fly.”

Listening to DA and this line from Xenophon in Ephraim’s last chapter has me thinking about a certain pixie’s time spent in a cave full of bats on Mercury. Imagine? Idk if I’d be pissed or giddy if that was his end.