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May. 27th, 2026 05:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I reread Daughter of Smoke and Bone.
I didn't remember first reading it, I didn't guess the story, and it actually gave me the creeps most of the time.
It might be that I was Far Too Warm yestrrday, but I think it is more that the story wants us to see some sort of grand soulmates romance, but I only see the death of personality, imposed twice. 'Giving back' someone's memories when they've lived a whole other lifetime from childhood on up? Death of personality, a kind of murder, reprogramming someone to be more convenient.
Also I really don't get it when some story wants us to distinguish between lust at first sight and some sort of fated love. They know nothing about each other. How is that love?
Even when they get together I was just thinking he knows nothing about her, but then I reakised he knows as much as the readers do, only with more senses. Still seems more like a 'ask on a first date' situation rather than all that grand plot stuff.
I do kind of want to know what happens next but fear the story mostly cares about this romance, which is creepy.
I think I shall look the rest of the trilogy up.
I didn't remember first reading it, I didn't guess the story, and it actually gave me the creeps most of the time.
It might be that I was Far Too Warm yestrrday, but I think it is more that the story wants us to see some sort of grand soulmates romance, but I only see the death of personality, imposed twice. 'Giving back' someone's memories when they've lived a whole other lifetime from childhood on up? Death of personality, a kind of murder, reprogramming someone to be more convenient.
Also I really don't get it when some story wants us to distinguish between lust at first sight and some sort of fated love. They know nothing about each other. How is that love?
Even when they get together I was just thinking he knows nothing about her, but then I reakised he knows as much as the readers do, only with more senses. Still seems more like a 'ask on a first date' situation rather than all that grand plot stuff.
I do kind of want to know what happens next but fear the story mostly cares about this romance, which is creepy.
I think I shall look the rest of the trilogy up.