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Isolde goes from completely rejecting vampires to accepting them and their way of life in the span of a few pages. The Queen of Flesh and Fire has become the Primal of Blood and Bone—the true Primal of Life and Death. It’s like you have all the science here, all the numbers that you should be dominating the markets with romance and you don’t do it because people think it’s ‘not literary’ or whatever.
I could not shake the feeling that this was the end—it loomed behind me, long fingers gripping my shoulders. That was why I hadn’t been able to grip my sword, why my body seemed to be at odds with my mind, why I suddenly felt desperate to be crushed beneath the weight of a warm body that could fill me better than anything I’d ever had before.Let me describe this book poorly: woman gets new boyfriend, old boyfriend is jealous, woman is jealous of new boyfriend’s female acquaintance because he goes to her for his fix, but woman doesn’t want to help him, she just gets mad at the other woman.
This book deals with themes such as appearance versus reality, darkness versus light (or in this case, wolf versus sparrow), change versus tradition, growing up, quest for power, love and heartbreak, family, female roles and feminism, fate versus freewill, inner and outer strength, war and sacrifice, and knowledge versus ignorance.Isolde is the ultimate female power fantasy—strong, just, wise, and willing to get her hands dirty when need be. But if the massive success of the Twilightfranchise has taught us anything, it’s that our pop culture loves the idea of vampires as love interests. It just felt sudden, and a little too intense considering the lack of conversations and meaningful relationship-building between them during the first 80% of the book. Author Jay Kristoff’s epic fantasy Empire of the Vampire is perhaps the most recent—and excellent—example of this trend. The air changed suddenly, and I twisted, lifting my blade once more, only to have it connect with another.
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