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A review by libraryofflo
This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede
4.5
This took everything I liked about the first book, and magnified it into something I loved. While there were a few aspects that irritated me, just because they felt inconsistent with the rest of the book, this was an absolute joy to read, and I am planning a reread already.
The relationships in this book are just incredible, and the representation is really here, I loved that we got to see people find the people for them. I also loved how the depictions of the Gods are just like them, they are these people with all this power and have been the cause of all this destruction for so long, and yet they were just playing around.
What this book also didn’t shy away from was killing off characters, and while I won’t spoil specifics, there’s something about this that I appreciate, not in a sadistic way, but in a way that I feel the author has taken the reader seriously and the stakes that were introduced actually meant something, this is a war, not everyone will make it out.
The ending made me cry, there’s something about addressing grief and accepting it that just always gets me, and Alessa’s view of everything that just pulled on every heartstring. This also might be the first book I have read that actually ends with Happily ever after!
The relationships in this book are just incredible, and the representation is really here, I loved that we got to see people find the people for them. I also loved how the depictions of the Gods are just like them, they are these people with all this power and have been the cause of all this destruction for so long, and yet they were just playing around.
What this book also didn’t shy away from was killing off characters, and while I won’t spoil specifics, there’s something about this that I appreciate, not in a sadistic way, but in a way that I feel the author has taken the reader seriously and the stakes that were introduced actually meant something, this is a war, not everyone will make it out.
The ending made me cry, there’s something about addressing grief and accepting it that just always gets me, and Alessa’s view of everything that just pulled on every heartstring. This also might be the first book I have read that actually ends with Happily ever after!