i think traitor was the first book i ever read with a wlw main character. i read it all in one day and the end upset me so bad i immediately gave it away
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I think they are good and interesting books but the third in particular feels like it goes very off-rail, and I don't think the second or the third come anywhere near the heart wrenching and phenomenal world building of the first
that makes sense, feels like kind of the inevitable path for a book that was all in lead-up to the original short story. sequels aren't easy. or always necessary 😅
yes!!! zack talking cloud into it, telling him it's the only way and knowing it's going to cost cloud but not realizing _how much_ he's asking of cloud, he doesn't know just how deeply cloud feels about him or how it will DESTROY cloud's life to live with the consequences!
(My heart is too soft for Baru Cormorant, is my takeaway here 😂 I automatically try to come up with a caveat, like Zack being resuscitated against his will, without Cloud knowing, to be used against him regardless of their choices...meanwhile Cloud is going insane anyway.)
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(Cloud would never...but Zack would (try to) make that sacrifice for him, of course.
Which is how you end up with a Cloud fractured beyond repair.)