Adelaide Jensen

So Odessa's on this, like,

incredibly grim road trip with Evie.

I was like, this sounds awful.

And she's sort of just being led on this bizarre quest with the Voster Priests who are just like, follow us, don't ask any questions.

And I don't know totally how I felt about that because I was like it was a little bit of, you know when you sort of get stuck in that like and every day was terrible and then every day was even worse.

But I guess how they sort of alleviated some of that was having this idea that she was reading this book that had these almost like profanities

prophecies in them and then things that kept coming true that was cool that was so creepy I was like oh my gosh when they saw that woman with a snake like that was oh I liked that element because it's almost prophecy but it's not and it's a bit different and there's again the mystery around how does this work why is this working is this connected to Caspia's story because early on in Caspia's story it said that she has these visions of the past so it's

I do think it was quite unique as a sequel, but I think that at the beginning I was a bit like unsure why I was like, oh, but I think it's just because it's not in a sort of almost template that I'm familiar with, but it gives you so much intrigue that even when, to be honest, not, I don't want to say like not a lot is happening, but it's like kind of a sort of a journey kind of thing.

It's like things unfolding that I was like, my God, I'm still, I'm a couple of hundred pages in now.

I need to know what happened.

for how much she was putting up with.

I think it's an interesting exploration of grief because it's not just the sort of classic story of the main character having to explore their own grief and getting through it.

It's like she's having to parent this child who has gone through all of this grief and trauma.

And it's a little bit different of a story plot device, I suppose, which I thought she did that quite well.

Well, it is almost like you say, like usually the parents are dead or useless, which we discussed at length.

But it's sort of that parentification of especially young people, which is like also such a YA trope like Katniss or whoever.

It's just like suddenly they are forced to take on this role, which usually they're not ready for, which is always an interesting exploration.

But I mean, Odessa is very capable.

It's that nature nurture thing again with monsters.

Well, it's such an interesting general discussion of monsters and how they are made in these books.