especially since this was back in 2015 before twitter became what it is now That’s a good point. The other death, I find more suspicious though. It didn’t need to be that brutal.
and then doesn't get dealt with at all because there's thirty pages left in the book and there's other plots to be wrapped up This! This drove me crazy. And then you have ‘no mourners’ as a convenient excuse to just not deal with the emotional fallout.
Well, because the Grisha are a persecuted minority . . . who are also an elite unit in the Ravkan army. Yeah… I wonder if it’s because she viewed each series as different entities in her mind. Like, in THIS one they’re elites, but in THIS one they’re persecuted…the result is something like a cat chasing its own tail. I don’t remember, is the Grisha committing war crimes ever addressed other than “wars happen”?
But Bardugo needed her there in order to support future book plots and so that she could avoid complicating the fantasy of Ravkan glory Yeah, true. This reminds me of that thing Disney does where a character’s themes and arc and wholeass trilogy can get snapped away any second so they can serve the overarching Avengers/MCU plot.
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That’s a good point. The other death, I find more suspicious though. It didn’t need to be that brutal.
and then doesn't get dealt with at all because there's thirty pages left in the book and there's other plots to be wrapped up
This! This drove me crazy. And then you have ‘no mourners’ as a convenient excuse to just not deal with the emotional fallout.
Well, because the Grisha are a persecuted minority . . . who are also an elite unit in the Ravkan army.
Yeah… I wonder if it’s because she viewed each series as different entities in her mind. Like, in THIS one they’re elites, but in THIS one they’re persecuted…the result is something like a cat chasing its own tail. I don’t remember, is the Grisha committing war crimes ever addressed other than “wars happen”?
But Bardugo needed her there in order to support future book plots and so that she could avoid complicating the fantasy of Ravkan glory
Yeah, true. This reminds me of that thing Disney does where a character’s themes and arc and wholeass trilogy can get snapped away any second so they can serve the overarching Avengers/MCU plot.