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dame_samara 's review for:
Lightbringer
by Claire Legrand
Rating: Ack/5
This book was a roller coaster of emotions to say the least. I feel like I have whiplash to some extent, as I write this I'm like stars don't encompass my feelings If ACK/5 was an option it would be what I would.
Did I love this book? No...
Do I think it was a good conclusion to the series? Yes.
This book covered so much ground, that I don't know what I would talk about in regards to it. It is what we've been building too in the last two books.
If you've read the other two, I'd say yes read this one.
If you're looking to start the series: eeeeehhhh?
The thing I am angry about finishing this book:
This book (and the series as a whole) digs so deep into the cycle of abuse and the ethicacy of child soldiers.
Rielle
In reality Rielle grew up in a very toxic environment where the people who were supposed to love her instead continually tried to stifle her. I specifically think of a scene where Tao was trying to drown Rielle as a child, in the first book.
Time and time again she was treated as a monster, as a terrible person by those adults in her life who should have loved her.
So when Corien came around he used similar toxic (i.e. Abusive) behaviours to get her on his side, she doesn't even second guess it.
To make it worse her Father's reaction to the accident that caused her father's death, meant that every time someone who loved her reacted negatively her reaction was that she needed to cut them out to not be further hurt.
Ludivine Is in reality a terrible person, who will do anything for Rielle and Audric. To the point he put Eliana through months of torture. Put Simon through torture as just a small child, then made him watch Eliana be tortured for months all for this grand plan of making her "stronger" then her mother.
Simon and Eliana:
I needed so much more than a depiction of post fight sex. Like this could have been a legitimate look at how to rebuild a relationship after trauma (both individual and shared). That would have been so much better then over half of the book being, basically (softcore) torture porn.
This book was a roller coaster of emotions to say the least. I feel like I have whiplash to some extent, as I write this I'm like stars don't encompass my feelings If ACK/5 was an option it would be what I would.
Did I love this book? No...
Do I think it was a good conclusion to the series? Yes.
This book covered so much ground, that I don't know what I would talk about in regards to it. It is what we've been building too in the last two books.
If you've read the other two, I'd say yes read this one.
If you're looking to start the series: eeeeehhhh?
The thing I am angry about finishing this book:
Spoiler
This book (and the series as a whole) digs so deep into the cycle of abuse and the ethicacy of child soldiers.
Rielle
In reality Rielle grew up in a very toxic environment where the people who were supposed to love her instead continually tried to stifle her. I specifically think of a scene where Tao was trying to drown Rielle as a child, in the first book.
Time and time again she was treated as a monster, as a terrible person by those adults in her life who should have loved her.
So when Corien came around he used similar toxic (i.e. Abusive) behaviours to get her on his side, she doesn't even second guess it.
To make it worse her Father's reaction to the accident that caused her father's death, meant that every time someone who loved her reacted negatively her reaction was that she needed to cut them out to not be further hurt.
Ludivine Is in reality a terrible person, who will do anything for Rielle and Audric. To the point he put Eliana through months of torture. Put Simon through torture as just a small child, then made him watch Eliana be tortured for months all for this grand plan of making her "stronger" then her mother.
Simon and Eliana:
I needed so much more than a depiction of post fight sex. Like this could have been a legitimate look at how to rebuild a relationship after trauma (both individual and shared). That would have been so much better then over half of the book being, basically (softcore) torture porn.