This is an action-packed second installment ( the opposite of its predecessor) peppered with moments of fresh air, bonding, friendship, self-discovery, unity, doubt, guilt, and forgiveness, with a gem named Ericen and only one true hero aka Res, my precious magical crow-no one can convince me otherwise. “Like trying to reform shattered glass.”Īnd what I’m most thankful for when it comes to this duology, is Kalyn Josephson’s acknowledgement of this trickster and its tricky nature. “Some cracks couldn’t be mended they only became a part of you instead, forever places that left you unsteady. You win, but you feel it there every once in a while, poking its head in, luring you with bitter words. This year, reading the sequel, I feel it because I’m experiencing it this very moment.ĭepression is a funny thing ( pardon my insensitivity) because in every single person it haunts, it brings a different battle an ocean of self-doubt, a blanket of exhaustion, a mist of loneliness, a well of pointlessness, suffocating, suffocating, always suffocating you. Last year with The Storm Crow, I felt its theme of depression due to my own past.
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