Melly: I love and hate the second installment.
Dawn: Hate? I happened to think the story was really good. I loved the transition between the two time periods in the book. And the sort of ‘passing of the torch’ with some of the old characters to the new ones.
Gus: She likes that, she just hates that Garrett died…
*Melanie starts sniffling* Melanie: My perfect feathery little bean...*Sniffle* And he was still sort of on the outs with Rowan when he died…
Vernon: I mean, Rowan died too...and Dolly…
Dawn: I mean, it is sad, but aside from that business with Garett and his book, most of the old hooves from the first book led happy lives. It’s probably the best you could hope for…
Broomie: Don’t forget the Warrowick Ripper…
Melly: Sweet Cervidwen’s Hooves...I’m glad the author left a good chunk of the nitty gritty details of his crimes out, but the parts he did write...*Melly shudders, rubbing her upper arms.* What a vile shoat he was…I felt so terrified and then horrified for his victims.
Dawn: I felt terrible for Rowan and Dolly too…especially Rowan, considering…
Joel: It was bad ass I’ll give it that. Rowan’s last bounty, his own firstborn son! That duel in the mine? He didn’t even let him monologue...I did not see that coming!
Talia: Creatures like Elijah are empty and cold. You cannot hesitate, not even for second. He is true predator, in the darkest sense of term. Rowan did what had to be done.
Megumi: It really ended up setting the tone for the noir-style cases in the latter half of the book. OH EM GOODNESS! Can we talk about how adorable Lucius and Elanor are!? Canon and my OTP in one shot!
Talia: Am I strange one for thinking Lucius should be with Talia?
Megumi: Pft...there’s a crack ship…
Gus: And we’ve devolved to shipping. Sweet Sawgrass, what’s the point in shipping? Lucius and Elanor marry at the end of th-
Megumi: GUS!
DAMARE BAKA! SPOILERS!
Gus: I’m just saying I don’t
see the point of shipping against established couples.
Broomie: AU’s are a thing Gus…
Kodi: Am I the only one who felt like Paul Ryder was...basically just Colt again?
Dawn: THANK YOU! *Gestures to Kodi* See, someone agrees with me!
Vernon: Paul is fine...he feels different enough…
Cameron: At least the Ryder family still has a presence in the series...it feels weird there isn’t an Odran descendant...*holds paws up defensively* Not that I loved the character, mind you...My favorite was actually Irene and Aleksey in this book...They remind me of...well... never mind...
Melly: I think the author got my feedback on that one. *Snickers* But if I’m being serious, it was nice that this book both passed the torch while making room for new characters. It’s a little something for everyone. Plus, you can more or less pick up this book without having read the first one...which is novel.
Vernon: Gives you just enough about what happened before without totally retreadin’ it.
Dawn: It gently encourages but doesn’t demand that new readers read the first installment.
Broomie: I’m eager for the last in the trilogy. The one set in like the eighties...Love me that eighties nostalgia.
Dawn: I’m just glad he didn’t start in the eighties era, since Granger Things came out, everyone’s been doing the ‘set in the eighties’ thing...it’s getting a bit…stale.
Gus: It never gets old for me...the cradle days of B&B…
Cameron: I lived it...well some of it...I wasn’t really conscious of the era till it was more than half over. *Chuckles* But for what I was aware of, it was pretty great.
Vernon: I think we can all purty much agree Royal Blue two was a solid entry...about as good as the first one...Though I am more partial to the western settin’…
Dawn: I think it was better...now all the author needs to do is nail the last installment, and I’m sure it’ll be a classic series!
Gus: At the rate his contemporaries are working on their own trilogies, if he just puts the book out at all, he’ll win by default. *Laughs*
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