So I lasted less than a week. And came back to my fandom in turmoil, misery, & general chaos. I read the Overdrive chapters, & I loved them. I was really excited last night, & felt like I could be excited for Tuesday again. And then I saw a specific spoiler that some people are discussing, but I won’t go into detail here because I promised no blatant spoilers & I meant it (though most people who follow me & know some of what I post can likely hazard a guess), & honestly, I didn’t think it was possible, but ACOWAR may end up on my Most Hated Books list. (I’m still putting it under a cut, because the spoiler is implied).
It takes a lot for me to put a book on that list. The author has to do something completely unnecessary to their plot or characters that it invalidates something of worth in the story or is honestly just so utterly sickening or damaging that I have lost the ability to even (like abusive relationships, for example). The top three on this list up to this point have been Allegiant by Veronica Roth (for that ending mostly, but really the whole book if I’m honest), Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (for completely invalidating the entire reason why Katniss went into the games with that ending), & Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer for the entire damn book being an unnecessary train wreck. I expected to say the 4th entry was going to be King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard, because of how Glass Sword ended and what could potentially be in the third book once I read it. Not a book in a series that has been the source of many joys over the last year, including meeting one of the best friends I could ever ask for & countless other people, & has helped me actually write again.
I am tempted to say that I will not believe the spoiler until I see it in print, in my hands, on Tuesday. The page in question to me seems rushed, poorly written, and even more poorly executed. But I’m preparing myself for it to be true. And depending how the book goes, that could propel ACOWAR straight to the top of the list I never thought I’d see it on.
The irony is that ACOMAF tops my Most Beloved Books list. What are the odds?
I’m ending my hiatus early, so I’ll be around again (though I’m not sure anyone really cared that I was gone in the first place or probably even noticed). But I’m honestly just very down right now, so I’ll probably go back to reading Windwitch by Susan Dennard and trying to distract myself, or working on a fic from when things actually made damn sense in this series.
Are you going to update your Tarquin fic soon? I absolutely loved the first two chapters!!
Hello sweet anon!!! :D
So, funny story: my original goal was to have it up today. But then last week I had no luck writing on my lunch at work like I normally do (I kinda screwed up my left wrist a bit with a new desk set up), fell asleep basically as soon as I got home from work, & got stuck on the beginning of the chapter (even though most of the canon dialogue is written down, I have a scene I created to add to the story that has been tough to crank out).
And then the weekend happened & I got distracted & started playing Horizon Zero Dawn (it’s so stunningly beautiful I’m having trouble looking away). 😓
Good news: Thanks to my lovely @illyriantremors, I have a new idea for how to approach the tough aforementioned scene! 😃Bad news: Chapter isn’t finished. 😔
So now that you have all that useless info, my goal is to try to have it finished by next Sunday. I don’t know if my work week will cooperate, but I’m certainly going to try! But Chapter 3 IS definitely coming, that much I can promise.
I’m so glad that you messaged me, because it is motivating when I hear that people like my fic & are looking forward to the next chapter! Thank you! 💜
