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Everblaze by Shannon Messenger

Once again, I'm not offering much review-type feedback on this book, but I will say that I think this starts my favorite section of the series (aka books 3-5).

Here are my notes on Everblaze, and they may contain spoilers from the book and other books in the series:
- Dex is the on-call IT guy now, and he needs a raise
- (14) So the elves just left an empty house in San Fransico, and nobody notices it?
- (23) Why do I picture the evil tower from The Lego Movie when they talk about Candleshade?
- (29) I feel like Gisela and Cassius definitely sleep in different beds
- (35) "The elves don't have police cause they're too peaceful" ... maybe they should? Like? They rely entirely on goblins for protection
- (40) Y'know, Sophie worries a lot about what happens if she goes to Exillium or whatever, but Jurek has a pretty great job with animals that she could get if she happened to end up there
- (87) Jolie had potions for black hair (Raven Lovelylocks) and brownish/yellow eyes (Liquid Amber Eyes)
- (89) Not Brant writing love poems about fire to Jolie
- Y'know what would be a super helpful ability? Time travel ... that or the ability to at least see through time
- (133) Why is Forkle so upset about not having a wife?
- (150) I still don't trust Terik completely ... unless he has some sort of ties to the Black Swan, why is he so adamant that Sophie go to him?
- (155) Terik says he wasn't all that different from Keefe as a kid ... what is he implying?
- (159) Also love how we basically ignore the fact that Keefe had a homing device on him for a whole book ... and the Neverseen still never used it to blow up Sophie
- (172) So apparently now Sophie doesn't get her own private changing room because it says that she was headed towards the girl's changing room
- (179) Sandor spends so much of his time in detention
- (191) I'm surprised Tiergan didn't veto the code word "everblaze" because why would you pick that when going into a pyrokinetic's head
- (215) Kenric studied inflicting? Why? If he and Brant truly are brothers or something, maybe it was to help him manifest?
- (265) Jolie has a cheese box
- (279) Not Bronte literally complaining because he doesn't get to see Fintan ... and he also knows all the pyrokinesis facts
- (396) Keefe is planning is own wedding, and he wants robotic spiders
- (397) Did the Black Swan sneak into Candleshade to leave a note in Keefe's pocket?
- (422) The Neverseen can walk on water?
- (494) Oralie refuses to have a part in testing the ability restrictor because she's Sophie's mom
- (526) What if Bronte sees Fintan reflected in Sophie? He passes along the message "it takes a special person to see the darkness inside of someone and not condemn them" ... it feels like something he or Fintan said to each other
- (536) Again, with Dex's trauma ... he lets himself get burnt to save Sophie and I'm sure it gives him flashbacks but Sophie just ditches him and tells him to take care of her dad
- (598) Love that Forkle's mode of attack is a belly flop