Thread:Applebaby12/@comment-38480398-20191022074247/@comment-32987979-20191022221432

You know, after reading that I've really come to realize just how much of these books Sophie wastes sulking and doing nothing. I agree 100% with everything you said, and she really needs to stop focusing on herself and her crushes.

One of the things that makes these books so unenjoyable for me is the fact that Sophie has five abilities and is still utterly pathetic. She can't hold her own in a fight. Isn't she supposed to be really special and everything? But she's just so weak. In Flashback, during the scene where Fitz gets angry and goes to some desert place to train, she mentions that she probably couldn't even do one of the push-ups Fitz was doing. Come on, Sophie. That's why you should be spending more time trying to build your strength and less time finding out who will be on your match list. And let's not forget the fact that she spent half the book hospitalized because of a broken hand.

I feel like most of her abilities are so pointless that she shouldn't even have them. She used her Polyglot ability once during the first book, and yes, it leads to her meeting Lady Cadence who it a little bit important (I can't really remember what she did though) but that could've been substituted for any other ability. Now she uses it to communicate with Tarina, but between now and when she first manifests it, it just feels so pointless, thrown in there without another thought. She can't even use her Inflicting because she's spent like less than two minutes trying to learn how to control it, and her teleportation is mostly only there for plot convenience and to remind us she's part Alicorn. Her Enhancing and Telepathy are the only talents she uses consistently (well, maybe she doesn't use her Enhancing that often but I think it's a step above the others.) Couldn't Shannon have given Sophie three different talents that would actually be useful?