#engelsfors

Wait, really? Oh, that’s funny.

For funsies, here’s a picture of my collection of the three books:

You know, one of these days, I’m gonna sit down and write a bunch of rambling posts about all the little things in this series I’m oddly obsessed with. Like the underdeveloped worldbuilding and magic system. Or how all the fire witches get the short end of the stick in their own unique ways. Or how earth and metal witches are totally overpowered and need to get nerfed.

I think the best way I can sum up my experience and relationship with these books is with this anecdote. I reread the books a while back, about half a year, or maybe a year ago. I got maybe a fifth through the first book, so not very far at all. I don’t think it was any one scene in particular, but more so a combination of things that made me close the book and sorta hold it at arms length. And I said to myself ”Wow, no wonder I was depressed in high school if this is what I was reading.” I briefly considered sopping, before I inevitably took the book up again, and I the proceeded to devour the entire trilogy over like a weekend.

The books are heavy, occasionally dreary and depressive. But I still find them compelling nonetheless and the fact that I’m still thinking about them as much as I do so many years later, with the fandom dead and dried up… that has to mean something.

And it’s not all bad and sad. Lumity may have been revolutionary, but they were not the first gay witches I shipped. That’d be Vanessa and Linnéa. And can I just say? Vanessa is low-key my favorite Chosen One. She had some of my favorite lines in the books.

(i have to stop myself now, i could go on for a lot longer. but like i said, one day i’ll sit down and make those long rambling posts)

its her!! i will be making the rest too. soon.

Some sketchs from the wlw books I’ve been reading in the past few months:

- A Dark and Hollow Star

- One Last Stop

- Crier’s War

- Engelsfors Trilogy

THE ENGLESFORS TRILOGY ▲ THE CHOSEN ONES              I am you. You are me. We are one.