Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2604:3D09:7A7F:DFE0:DD9A:BAB7:BEE2:1ED5-20181108024315/@comment-32987979-20181207043549

I wanted more Tam and Wylie. After all, they were on the cover, and I was so excited to see how they'd interact since we've never really seen them together before. And considering it's pretty obvious Wylie likes Linh, the whole thing had so much potential for some really entertaining scene. They could have a Flasher/Shade rivalry, mirroring the thing with Lady Zillah and Elwin (who I totally ship by the way,) or it could be completely different and the two actually work really well together. After all, they're shown together on the cover- shouldn't they have been the main two background characters? The cover itself was actually pretty disappointing. What I imagined was Tam and Wylie are doing some Shade/Flasher thing that takes all their energy and focus and is incredibly important. Suddenly an enemy attacks. If Sophie is unable to fend off the enemy, she could risk all of Tam and Wylie's work being destroyed, and something terrible happening as a result, possibly even the death or serious injury of one or both of them. Sophie has to use all of her skills that she worked so hard on to fend off the attackers. In fact, I could probably rewrite the whole book. I really wanted more Alvar scenes, more going on with any other ship than Sophie's  (some Tiana scenes would've been nice, to add salt in the wound for when he left) and less Sophitz scenes. I don't mind them but geez... there's so, so, so much. Shannon really seems to be rubbing it in all the Sokeefe fans. And for those of us who don't have ships we strongly support or hate, it's just annoying having "SOPHITZ! SOPHITZ!" Screamed in your ear the whole second half of the book.