There goes my 5th time reading this book.

By now I know pretty much all of what's in that book, but it was nice to revisit it as an audiobook !
My one critic about it is that Jax's narrator sometimes felt a bit flat to me? I think he lacked emotions a bit.

The story in itself was really great! A perk of having read it 5 times in 13 months is that now I notices everything,

like how obvious Alek's manipulations are

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For me, Tycho and Jax are the best part of the book, their relationship is just so... perfect? It's rare to see such healthy and awsome relationships in romantasy

Tycho having the same narrator as Harristan in Destroy the Day is insane but also so good.
Giving Alek Tycho's narrator for the epilogue is vile 💀😂

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This is like, my fourth time reading this book, and I still love it just as much.

Things I hope to see in the next book :

– Why did Callyn's mother have a magic necklace?!?!?!?
– Jax and Rhen
– Jax and Emberfall
– More about the Scravers and the history of magesmiths
– Nolla Verin instructing Callyn and Nora in self defense
– Noah !

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Just watched a movie that had a character named Tycho ! Tho it was pronounced Tee-ko and not Ti-ko

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OMG I LOVE THAT BOOK SO MUCH

I just re-read it after reading all of the Cursebreakers trilogy, and it was sooooo good.
Somehow I love Tycho even more.
He and Jax are so precious their romance was insanely good.

I'm pretty sure the re-read make me hate Alek even more tho. He can rot in hell :)

It was so good to read about the other characters from the Cursebreakers series, especially Rhen.
We need more Noah too

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I loved that book so much much yet I haven't even read the series it's a spin-off off. 

Tycho was such a surprising character, he was so interesting and amazing and lovable.
Jax as well. 

The romance had me giggling like an idiot, I swear my family thought I was going insane, but really it was so good !!! 

The actual plot was also really good. I love how for much of the book there's not really a villain, just people with drastically opposed opinions. 


I need the second book ASAP. I need more with these characters. 

That scene when Tycho was like, dying, but he noticed he'd let his blood on Jax's cheek and like went to kinda clean it >>>>>>>>>>

I– I can't even–
This book changed my brain chemistry, my perspective, idk it's just–
How ? This book made me feel so much for an AI ? It managed to be better than the first book wich was itself better than any other book ?
If you haven't read this trilogy, please do.

It was such a perfect sequel. I loved how the characters developed, including a new one. And the world development too omg.
It never felt dull or boring, it was always either deeply fascinating, or really funny, or downright devastating with some really cool philosophical stuff in it.

I'm so happy I already have The Toll :)

Incoming spoilers for Star Wars: The High Republic btw

Endura 🤝 Starlight
Marie 🤝 Stellan

Reading about the sinking of Endura was like reliving the fall of Starlight Beacon, it's both incredible (perfect), and also horrible (I'm actually devastated by that ending).

Marie. MARIE

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HELP– WA– I–

She Stellaned this. She just–

THIS WAS—
Insane.
This book had so much in it. I love how the story went, I think the conclusion was perfect, and literally ALL the plot points are completed. It's amazing how in this trilogy, everything, every tiny detail, is eventually used. 

I have only 2 complaints about this book. The first is about first half's time-line, which was such a mess ? I was so lost—years having names instead of chronological numbers didn't help. But then it got better once all the storylines where in the same month.
The second is about the balance between all the characters and their storyline. This book follows around 14 main POVs (

Faraday, Rowan, Citra, Goddard, Rand, Grayson, Loriana, Munira, Mendoza, Morrison, Jeri, Possuello, the Thunderhead  and Astrid

), so obviously we're gonna get more of some and less of others, but some disappeared for basically 300 pages, which also made it a bit hard to follow. 

⚠️ Spoilers ⚠️ :
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– ASTRID HAD TO SPEND OVER 1 000 YEARS <b><i>ALONE</i></b> ?!?!?!?!?
– And Rowan had to spend all the journey to their new planet without Citra ?!?! 😭
– Rand resurrected Tyger tho. That was a great decision.
I love how Rand's Patron Historic supported ethical egoism (I.e. people ought to act in their own self-interest), and well that's basically what Scythe Rand does.
And Volta went fast like an old battery too actually.
Actually Marie Cury died because of the radiation due to her work, just like Scythe Curie kinda died because of her work/by a tool of her work.
Oh and Anastasia Romanov died young, tho some people think she survived the Russian revolution, and her fates still holds some mystery, which is extremely Citra in and after <i>The Toll</i>. And btw, the name Αναστασία is ancient Greek for "of the resurrection". Again, very Citra. Also the word "citra" itself is Sanskrit for "wonderful" or "beautiful".
Scythe Lucifer's symbolism was also explained in the books.
The name significance in this book is just awsome.