Talk:Tam Song/@comment-2A02:C7D:4B01:3F00:BDF8:D92C:9BE6:1919-20190823084125/@comment-38498656-20190824134451

Sadie Flynn, Exactly!! It’s like she doesn’t feel anything for anyone else for more than a few seconds unless they die or it’s Fitz and Keefe. I need Sophie to wake up and realize how Tam being taken affects Linh, how Alvar’s second betrayal affects Biana, how training with Fintan is affecting Marella, how all these problems together are affecting Wylie as he tries to move into the group, and how being left to build gadgets while everyone else all but forgets about him.

But what I really need is this. I need Sophie to be strong because of her emotions, not in spite of them. I need her emotions, her rage, her pain to make her stronger, not hinder her until she gets over them. I want to her to recognize all the mistakes she’d made, all the things that are ACTUALLY her fault—not the obviously dumb things that she says are her fault and then everybody rushes to comfort her. I want her to recognize those and then fight to make them right.

And again, you’re right about all those insane things the book could be focusing on instead of love. I mean, those are awesome!! But of course, I am in no way critiquing Shannon for how she storytells, the books are still really good