A Taryn Defense Post (Kind Of)
Ok so I saw some people whining about how the new novella is going to be about Taryn, but let me tell you something:
Taryn is not a bad person
At least, relative to Jude she isn’t. Taryn is no more bad a person than Jude is, you guys just like Jude more because she’s the main character. If the whole book revolved around Taryn instead of Jude, this whole thing would be flipped IMHO.
These reasons are pure inference, it’s just how things looked to me as I read TCP
1) Taryn is not marrying Lock because she loves him (maybe that’s a teensy part of it) she’s marrying him to get a place in faerie, similar to how Jude wanted to earn her place as a knight.
2) Taryn is more faerie than human. She may be a mortal girl, but her morals are all wack due to growing up in the hell known as Faerie. She’s every bit as traumatized as Jude, and probably just wants her suffering to end. Locke is a way to make that end.
3) Taryn may have betrayed Jude, but let’s remember that Jude isn’t the easiest sister to stick by. If it were Taryn’s way, she would lay low and not provoke the wild beasts we know as Cardan’s crew. Now I love Jude more than anything, but half of Taryn’s suffering is due to the fact that Jude Just. Won’t. Quit. It was probably the hardest decision Taryn had to make accepting Cardans deal and leaving her sister in the water like that, but Taryn did the best thing for Taryn, something Jude never really thought about.
4) Taryn chose Locke because Locke wanted a girl who was easy to manipulate. He wanted someone weaker than him so he could mold them into what he wanted. He was probably the only boy willing to marry a girl who wasn’t a faerie, and Taryn took her chance to get a place in court.
5) Taryn knows just how shitty Locke is. She doesn’t care. As I’ve said before, Locke was a means to an end. Yes, she betrayed her sister, she chose a place in court over Jude, something Jude probably would have never done. Jude is noble, Taryn just wants to make a place for herself, despite where her loyalties should lie. Jude wasn’t getting her anywhere, but Locke definitely would.
This may not have skewed your opinions in Taryn’s favor, but it wasn’t really supposed to. I feel like we all just need to keep an open mind as to what Taryn herself was thinking, and understand her side of the story. Taryn was a shitty sister, but she did what she had to do to keep herself safe in a land full of monsters.
Whatever you think of her, Taryn is an interesting and compelling character, a perfect foil to her twin. She knew what she wanted and took it no matter what the consequences were. I, for one, am excited to read the novella so that we can see exactly what Taryn is made of.
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