Talia Moodley

Like I just think that that was so smart because it comes, I don't know, maybe 150, 200 pages in, something like that.

Yeah, just a bit before halfway.

And you're kind of the very first chapter you see this blight in action.

You see this white light just completely shining

unravel the bodies of the Quen as they're trying to reach this safe harbor of Tiryn.

And then Tiryn is presented as this utopia and you're with Siona on the fight to kind of, you know, show the inept men that she can do magic.

And you're kind of trying to be with her to find this clearer way of sourcing energy so that you can actually see where you're drawing the power from.

Because the whole, I guess, thing is that they can't see the other realm.

It's just these kind of vague shapes and blurry things in the typewriter.

And then she unlocks this way to see it in vivid clarity.

And then you see the Quen dying and you see Tommel's reaction to him putting the pieces together.

And it's just, it was one of those moments where I was like, this is why we read.

It's so good.

Yeah.

Thoughts?

And it just really drove that home.

And also the fact that it was the magic.

Like I think that that as a fantasy reader, you know, you never expect the magic to kind of have that kind of cost.

Like I think that was a shocking aspect too because it is kind of this thing that you have probably, you know, grown up loving.

But in this kind of context, I found that that being the twist rather than it kind of being, I guess, the rulers of the city, like the high mages doing something outside of it.