STOP THE GAME OF THRONESIFICATION OF RANDOM IPS!!!!! STOP IT!!!! WE DON'T WANT IT!!! this is one of the companion duologies to the avatar the last airbender tv show, this one tells us kyoshi's origin story! and honestly. ugh. this was like atla if sozin was littlefinger and they killed sokka. it wasn't until the last quarter where I really got on board with this. idk if I would necessarily say that it was worth it but damn what an ending! I think that kyoshi was a really interesting character to unpack slowly and if you watched the original atla show and were annoyed cause aang was like wahhhh I don't wanna kill people😣😣 I think this will satisfy your thirst for BLOOD. even though I complained about this book becoming kinda game of thrones-y, I think that the main villain was actually downright CHILLING and every time he did something fucked I was actually so gagged like I genuinely didn't believe that this book went there at times. it was actually fr crazy. like this was definitely for a slightly older age group than the atla show😭😭 if you're highly invested in the show and it's lore I wouldn't tell you to skip this but it's definitely not a must read and you could probably get a summary of kyoshi's origins by watching some nerd explain it to you on youtube. standby for the sequel review 3.25 stars