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A review by imme_van_gorp
The Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo
3.5
I’ve never been a fan of The Darkling, but that doesn’t mean I don’t understand why he is the way he is. I get it.
And a story like this one only makes me understand it more and more; if you live hundreds of years on your own, never being able to stay anywhere for long, never long enough to form any connection with another person, then eventually you’ll stop caring, you’ll stop loving, you’ll stop feeling.
And if you have a childhood memory where you did think you finally found a safe place, only to be betrayed in the worst way possible? Yea, I get why you’d stop trusting people altogether.
It’s almost like him becoming a monster was inevitable.
P.S. Annika was pure evil. I don’t care how desperate she was, you just don’t do something like that.
And a story like this one only makes me understand it more and more; if you live hundreds of years on your own, never being able to stay anywhere for long, never long enough to form any connection with another person, then eventually you’ll stop caring, you’ll stop loving, you’ll stop feeling.
And if you have a childhood memory where you did think you finally found a safe place, only to be betrayed in the worst way possible? Yea, I get why you’d stop trusting people altogether.
It’s almost like him becoming a monster was inevitable.
P.S. Annika was pure evil. I don’t care how desperate she was, you just don’t do something like that.