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Nov 10, 2018summerforever rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Emotional. One explosion after the other in this one. My favorite passages and quotes: ""And that's fine," he presses on before I can stop him. "You never saw me the way I see you, not even at home, before all this happened. I thought you might one day, but--" He shrugs his shoulders. "It's just not in you to love me."" - Kilorn. Dude, I can't imagine what he must've felt when he said that. He's been in love with Mare for years but she just doesn't feel the same way. "It seemed like a dream back then, an impossibility. And it still is. It always will be. I do not love Kilorn, not the way he wants me to. I never will." -Mare. Damn, this girl is cold. I was hoping she and Kilorn would get together but oh well there's Cal, therefore the childhood friend will always be just a friend. "He looks so disgusted I expect him to spit. "One day soon you're going to get lost," he breathes. "And I won't be there to lead you back."" -Kilorn. Yes, Kilorn, you throw that god damn shade. I love Kilorn for saying that. Mare is annoying sometimes. "I need to be someone else, someone who doesn't rely on anything but her own strength. He makes it too easy to slip back into Mare, and forget the person I need to be. Silence lingers, soft as the clouds of our breath in the cool air. "If you die, I'll kill you." He smiles sadly. "Likewise."" Ok. Mare annoyed me a lot with her shit about being self-dependent and all of that. But it was nice for Kilorn and Mare to share a friendly moment. "But a lie is what they need to carry on, and if my deceit saves even one of them, it is worth the cost to my soul." -Mare. Okay, I thought this was nice of Mare to think. Good job to the lightning girl. "I don't remember anything else until we're in the air. My face runs with tears but I can't wipe them away. I stare at my hands, painted in both colors of blood." - Mare. Yeah, I cried here. Shaaade :( “Even the faces that haunt me, the faces of the dead, have disappeared. Funny, now that I’m dying, my ghosts decide to leave. I wish they would come back. I wish I didn’t have to die alone.” - Mare. This has to be one of my favorite parts. I just think it's so sad for her to think that she's dying all alone. As much as I may not like Mare, I felt so bad for her in that part of the book. "I cling to Cal, Kilorn, Shade, to saving all the newbloods I can, because I am afraid of waking up to emptiness, to a place where my friends and family are gone and I am nothing but a single bolt of lightning in the blackness of a lonely storm. If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.” - Mare. I was dazed after reading that metaphor.