madarauchiha's review
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
0.5
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This review is a mess and I'm not making it coherent.
In summary this book is physically and emotional abusive mother, deadbeat da with the most unique excuse for abandonment, and fantasy autism. Except it's not autism because it's cured? Somehow? I still don't know how that works.
This book absolutely romanticizes abuse. Like it happens and it's skipped over and abusers get forgiven and it's all shoved under the rug. Lasting trauma? cptsd? Who's that? No, we're too busy for that, skipped, moving the plot forward.
Oh so like the sister MCs are both underage which makes the romance extremely gross. esp the orgasm scene. HOW OLD ARE THESE MALE LOVE INTERESTS???
▪ The first two Paladin were born out of the luxem magnam, a man and a woman, each with a portion of this light burning within them.
What weird cissexism. To have both magic and light itself be gendered. Are we really doing this in 2021? OR whenver this was published?
▪ I stared down at his [grandfather's] hand on mine, his dark olive skin, ...
I'm so tired of spineless white authors who can't commit to skin tones darker than 'hypothetically tan'. The mother is apparently super pale and makes the older MC use skin bleaching items to lighting her medium tan skin. This is mentioned only once and doesn't have much bearing as skin and culture and race and ethnicity isn't brought it.
Like the only race / ethnicity is very paladin versus not-paladin which feels like Baby's First Race and Ethnicity Discussion.
Oohhh this entire book is frustratingly white. Like I dont want Black characters or characters of color to be shoehorned in but when you add in shit like rakasa [aka raksasa something from Hindu and Buddhism] you should add some actually flavor to the world setting. I genuinely thought we left generic white aryan fantasy books in the 90s but I guess not.
The romance was gross. How the fuck old is raiden. No I'm not spelling it the way the author wants me to. I hate the names. personal thing. Star wars ruined the goofy fantasy spelling for me, full offense.
The romance between Inura and raiden is extremely gross and confusing because like. Isn't she just fifteen. He's an adult he should not being flirting with a fifteen y o child. It feels incredible gross to read that full body healing apparently feels like My First Orgasm for a fifteen year old child. And in front of her father too? Can you set up a romance in a worse way?
I think its shitty that the mc I guess it's expanded on in the second book, but you know what? I don't care.
I wouldn't read the second book if you had a gun to my head. Really boring. Very generic. The writing was ok. It was clear and well edited.
The character voices and characterizations were rather generic and trope like. Like ah, you have the love interest, the comic relief friend, and the female friend of the love interest. Yes these are the only people who exist in the world. It's especially shitty that there's so few speaking female characters. You have
content warnings:
minor animal death, injuries, bone fractures, poisons,
medium ableism, parental death, oceans, death, disease, genocide, murder, blood, bone fractures, injuries, death, child death, unsanitary,
major colorism, skin bleaching, confinement, prisons, child abuse, unreality, emotional abuse, child abuse, abuse, starvation, body horror, demolition, death, prisons, child birth, medical scenarios, child abandonment,
This review is a mess and I'm not making it coherent.
In summary this book is physically and emotional abusive mother, deadbeat da with the most unique excuse for abandonment, and fantasy autism. Except it's not autism because it's cured? Somehow? I still don't know how that works.
This book absolutely romanticizes abuse. Like it happens and it's skipped over and abusers get forgiven and it's all shoved under the rug. Lasting trauma? cptsd? Who's that? No, we're too busy for that, skipped, moving the plot forward.
Spoiler
▪ “Her sister has immense Paladin power, just as I suspected,” my father began. “Power that has been suppressed—unused—for fifteen years, ever since the night she was born and I was sucked through the gateway by the surge from her birth.Oh so like the sister MCs are both underage which makes the romance extremely gross. esp the orgasm scene. HOW OLD ARE THESE MALE LOVE INTERESTS???
Spoiler
▪ The first two Paladin were born out of the luxem magnam, a man and a woman, each with a portion of this light burning within them.
What weird cissexism. To have both magic and light itself be gendered. Are we really doing this in 2021? OR whenver this was published?
▪ I stared down at his [grandfather's] hand on mine, his dark olive skin, ...
I'm so tired of spineless white authors who can't commit to skin tones darker than 'hypothetically tan'. The mother is apparently super pale and makes the older MC use skin bleaching items to lighting her medium tan skin. This is mentioned only once and doesn't have much bearing as skin and culture and race and ethnicity isn't brought it.
Like the only race / ethnicity is very paladin versus not-paladin which feels like Baby's First Race and Ethnicity Discussion.
Oohhh this entire book is frustratingly white. Like I dont want Black characters or characters of color to be shoehorned in but when you add in shit like rakasa [aka raksasa something from Hindu and Buddhism] you should add some actually flavor to the world setting. I genuinely thought we left generic white aryan fantasy books in the 90s but I guess not.
The romance was gross. How the fuck old is raiden. No I'm not spelling it the way the author wants me to. I hate the names. personal thing. Star wars ruined the goofy fantasy spelling for me, full offense.
The romance between Inura and raiden is extremely gross and confusing because like. Isn't she just fifteen.
Spoiler
And hes been serving in the magical council for how long?I think its shitty that the mc
Spoiler
doesn't get her own powers. she can only improve other people's powers.I wouldn't read the second book if you had a gun to my head. Really boring. Very generic. The writing was ok. It was clear and well edited.
The character voices and characterizations were rather generic and trope like. Like ah, you have the love interest, the comic relief friend, and the female friend of the love interest. Yes these are the only people who exist in the world. It's especially shitty that there's so few speaking female characters. You have
Spoiler
grandmother, mother, twin sister MCs, the female friend of the love interest, the nursemaid, uhhhh? A single woman who appears once to to say thanks for healing my son who you got injured because you opened the gate to Not Hell Land?content warnings:
minor animal death, injuries, bone fractures, poisons,
medium ableism, parental death, oceans, death, disease, genocide, murder, blood, bone fractures, injuries, death, child death, unsanitary,
major colorism, skin bleaching, confinement, prisons, child abuse, unreality, emotional abuse, child abuse, abuse, starvation, body horror, demolition, death, prisons, child birth, medical scenarios, child abandonment,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Pedophilia, and Toxic relationship
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