"To heroes and their Legends."

I get what Get Your Hands Dirty is driving at, I do, and I largely agree. I just don’t like the extremity of Ella’s whole “instead of being firmly set in right and wrong and not allowing for nuance, you should have no moral lines when it comes doing a right thing and be 100% an ends justify the means person instead” thing.

Ah, yes, nothing like the novel basically saying Chloe deserved the “how’d that work out for your dead mom?” line. 😐

Someone explain how Chloe was “being a princess” when she accidentally broke the vase, then immediately took responsibility and apologized. The stepmother was obviously wrong to take it out on Ella, and Chloe is rightly upset at this injustice - which Ella acknowledges as one! I get that Chloe gets needed character development in this story, but the narrative (and other characters) are kinda needlessly mean to her at some points.

I went from "the new Descendants isn't very good :(" to absolute Rise of Red brainrot in like 48 hours, and I'm so glad this is the first time I've been self-aware of my tendency to sometimes like things significantly more the second time.