A Torch Against the Night

The fact that I basically had.. No clue where or what Elias and Laia were doing half the time should show you (and me) something. I do want to carry on because I want to see what's next but not right away. And hoping that changing formats will help. I think Helene might be my favourite out of the three main characters. Though that's like I can mostly tolerate her/she's my least liked out of the three. I do want to see where she goes with her magic and I want to see her get better as a character (meaning, actually see servants as people).

Honestly, there's not much I can say nicely about Elias. He is... a simp, in the sense that he met Laia and then fell in love her with like a week or so later. He's all “I love you so so much. You're my everything” and I'm sitting there like “why though? I don't believe it!” Give me BELIEVABLE ROMANCE FROM BOTH OF YOU. Laia, I think, is improving a but. That's all. I wanted her to delve deeper into herself and learn more about what she could do and that wasn't really done in this book. But, honestly, as she was with Elias I half paid attention to her because he kept annoying me.

Something that annoyed me is that I wasn't sure how much of a timeline we're working with in this book? Ember had the whole month timeline with Laia's brother and all but this with moving between the school and Laia and Elias – no clue. I'm not good with time in real life, much less in books, and certainly not when the book annoys me.

I think the big thing annoyed me is that I went into this series thinking there would be a lot of magic involved. Maybe all three main characters would have magic. Or just one. A character deals with a magic-heavy sub-plot – something along those lines. I don't think that a lot of people who've read this series have really spoken about how much magic is in this series, so maybe I just misread a lot somewhere. I just know that when I sat down to read the first book, I was expecting a lot of magic involved. And I didn't get that. So I think that made me dislike it more. I'm a big magic in fantasy fan so I do get sad if it's not there and I was thinking it would be.