Call Me Will

I have lots of thoughts and it might get a bit ranty so I’ll start with what I liked,

Thomastair—enough said, they owned this book.

The focus on rebuilding friendships Matthew/James Daisy/Lucy

The severity and care with which James abuse was handled.

The scene where Belial possessed the humans—it was creepy and awful

Grace and Jesse throwing bombs

Christopher coming back to help Grace finish the fire message

James flicking the lamp on- the drama felt perfect

Mathews journey

The epilogue.

Ok, now what I didn’t like. (There’s a lot,sorry)

Herondaisy / James refusal to tell her about the bracelet— it all felt silly and pointlessly dragged out. CC hyped herondaisy up so much for this book and I honestly think we were given breadcrumbs. They barely even had an entire conversation, chapter 23 was great but I’d rather have seen them actually discuss their feelings and James be honest with her. I hated Grace confessing to Cordelia, it just felt like corner cutting.

No wedding runes 🤬 I’ll never get over not being given this moment— I so wanted to see them renew their marriage just the two of them.

The last 30% dragged. It felt pointless with no stakes.

Cordelia and Lucie going to Edom and achieving nothing and leaving immediately— boring and pointless.

Beliels big plan being he wanted to become the king of England — again felt so stupid.

The drama with Bridgestock— literally only mattered to get all the parents out of London (nothing else happened with that plot)

Kits death— so rushed it might as well not have happened.

Here’s what I would have liked to see:

Beliel finding a way to take over the living Silent brothers and iron sisters as well as the dead

Maybe taking over idris instead of London and having them all trapped there the gang had to get into idris to find James and end Beliel.

James/Beliel almost killing one of his parents— imagine Will trying to get theough to James and it not working until the last moment. Will on his knees telling his son that he loves him and it’s alright before James manages to fight back.

James and Cordelia fighting each other under Beliel and Liliths influence— both of them tearing themselves apart rather than hurt the other.

Christopher: yeah, share what has been bothering you all this time and we can join our forces to solve them.

Cordelia, James, Jesse, Lucie, etc: it's not my secret to tell.

Thomas: not this again.

Too many aspects and relationships were wrapped up in a nice, neat bow.

Most importantly, that final battle should've had higher stakes. I was genuinely worried about Anna and Ari for a moment but that passed quickly. Alastair and Matthew should've been in more danger protecting Cordelia.

Maybe we shouldn't've have known or foreshadowed less about Cortana's healing abilities when Cordelia was a paladin. Like- James STABBED himself in the heart. But I knew he'd be okay. The stakes just weren't there for me to be worried.

I didn’t see anybody else posting these so I figured I would so we can all enjoy the new gotsm stories together.

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