Cottonmouth

4.5/5 ⭐️

Yep, I loved this one. It's not as romantic as some of the other books in the series but it was plot-driven. It's heavier than the other books but this feat only made me know more about the ramifications of the events caused by/initiated by the former main characters. We see what life was inside Dreadnaut, or at least a glimpse of how dreadful (fitting name btw) it is to live in a metal cage that is unfairly divided by a primitive system.

Volp, Ursula, and Pierce are one of the well-hinted villains in the series, especially fucking Volp. God I hate that guy. All three of them disgust me at every turn of the page. But the thing is their actions, though barbaric and most of the time unnecessarily inhumane, is expected. Humanity is facing the biggest war against aliens since the Lurkers and they are desperate af. I wanted to compare Ursula to Menkel and though they are extremely alike, one is doing it for evolution and a search for a weapon while the other is doing it for pure fucking medical curiousity. I don't want to compare what Ursula did to what Menkel did because Menkel was a fucking monster. Ursula can very well be seen as one but what she did was nothing compared to what Menkel has done to his own kind. Pierce, on the other hand, is a pompous egomaniac who thinks so little of the Nagas who are literally the bew natives on Earth. And then there's Volp. I hate that dictator, I hope he died when the Dreadnaut exploded but given how there's still a new arc/s (3/6 more books) coming next soon, his more than likely to have survived and will remain as the main antagonist of the series.