Adelaide Jensen

Do you think that reading these books from a young age has given us a lot of patience to stick with the world because we think, actually, I love these worlds and these characters.

And even if there's bits of novels or like particular books in a series which don't hit as much for you, you're like, I'm in this for the long haul anyway.

And it's devastating.

I think I used to do that when I was young and carefree and had much time.

And now I just go, oh, well, we'll just see what happens.

But I think the really good authors will be able to like –

position it enough for you that not re-explaining everything, obviously, but enough little cues that you can just pick it back up and be like, yes, I remember that person from that thing, which same again for Skulldog Great Pleasant when I was reading book 13 the other day, and I probably haven't read one in a few years, but I was like, oh, I immediately remember all these people, which is quite impressive because it's a huge cast of characters and 12 books of events.

I also don't really have the patience for a really long this is what happened in the last books thing because I recently read one of those and I almost just skipped it altogether because I was like, well, I actually don't remember so I need to read this.

But I was like, oh, my God, it just keeps going.

Yeah.

I don't know, but it's a different.

It's a fine line.

Strokes for different folks, as it were.

But I think it is what makes fantasy readers so loyal and such a very specific community that gets so behind series because once you're in a couple of books, you're like, I'm here.

Like you said, I will wait another year for that book and then I will wait another year for the next one and I will keep rereading in the middle.

Let's start looking at the Rites of the Starling.

And so Rites of the Starling picks up where Shield of Sparrows has left off.

Odessa and Ransom, our married main characters, have been separated, as we talked about in the classic, and after they've been attacked by the Crux, which is the monsters of book one.

So Odessa and Evie, which is Ransom's four-year-old sister, are now traveling across the realm to seek shelter from Odessa's father, who's the king of Quintus.

And they're also searching for a cure for Lyssa, which has infected Ransom and all the monsters.