Is she resisting the desire to love? Is she resisting the temptation of power in an evil-adjacent way? Does she really want to belong and be told she’s special, as Callum and even Blake seem to believe? Is she finding herself? I don’t know! It makes me want to rip my hair out. I can’t muster up many feelings her besides ambivalence because, despite being treated to Blake’s signature character studies and interrogations of personality, insecurities, and motivations, her internal struggle just isn’t clear. Reina and her unfeeling, kind of unhinged god complex continue to confuse me. (I’d say no contest, but… Libby.) How Blake executed that actual magic trick is beyond me. Given what we knew, you wouldn’t think his chapters would be fun to read, but they were my favorite. Callum and Reina is an interesting pairing, mostly because Callum is possibly the most interesting character in the whole book. The characters split into new and novel pairings that are just as delightful, compelling, and fruitful as the pairings of the first novel.
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