#A Darkness At The Door

[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

‘I would have taken the city apart to find you’ is giving ‘to hell with revenge, to hell with his schemes. If Rollins had done something to Inej, Kaz would pain East Stave with his entrails’

[shsenhaji]

📚 January Reading Round-Up 📚

January was a pretty great reading month! Finished a few books I'd started in December, while also binging some new ones.

- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (good, very funny and bittersweet, full of detailed and lush descriptions, loved the last part the best, very different than the movie's plot)

- Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher (Delightful, funny, characters were a bit too self-deprecating but it worked nonetheless, all the feels)

- Manacled by Senlinyu (Very good, cried at a lot of parts, not my favourite iteration of this trope but a great addition, loved the fanart, interesting take on Draco Malfoy that I did enjoy)

- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Very good, loved the audiobook, funny and smart and heartfelt, MC has ADHD vibes, some cool twists, great intertwined flashback story structure)

- Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Edition Vol. 5 by Hiromu Arakawa (Very good, thankfully some of the scenes didn't hit me as hard as the anime, loved the humour and the art style)

- The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani (Good, very intense, loved the second half of the book more, great character development and themes)

- A Darkness at the Door by Intisar Khanani (Very very good, binged it in a day, very poetic and lyrical and angry and cathartic, loved the romance and the friendships and the ending)

- Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier (Good, loved the beginning, not quite what I was expecting for the ending, great characters and communication)

[abouquetofrandomthoughts]

I am going feral over The Theft of Sunlight and A Darkness At The Door by Intisar Khanani.

I read 400 pages in the first book in one day because I could not stop. It's not a problem if you're enjoying it, right?

[radedneko]

"That's what family does: we save each other every day of our lives."

~A Darkness at the Door by Intisar Khanani

[awesomenikie]

It sucks loving a book series and no one ever talks about . Who am I supposed to scream about Bren and Rae with??

[miithridatism]

I don’t want to be what Winterfrost saw in me: deciding people’s fates on my own—judge, jury, and executioner. Because one day, I will be wrong.

A Darkness at the Door by Intisar Khanani

[bookcoversonly]

Title: A Darkness At The Door | Author: Intisar Khanani | Publisher: Hot Key (2022)

[geraniums-red]

Intisar Khanani - A Darkness at the Door

Book 3 in the Dauntless Path series

This book finishes the arc started in book 2, The Theft of Sunlight.

Rae has been betrayed and captured by slavers, and needs to escape, free the children she has been enslaved alongside, and then get back to defeating the slavery ring as a whole - which won't be easy, as it's supported by some very powerful people and organisations.

I liked that the book has a disabled protagonist (Rae has a club foot), and that the depiction felt realistic in terms of when it slowed her down or ached or needed massaging, and while it was clearly an inconvenience it wasn't treated as a tragedy. I also liked that she was a non-magical person in a magical setting, so it's her wits and actions that make her special rather than her being any sort of 'chosen one'.

I disliked the way that the slaves were all enslaved as children and almost all kidnapped by strangers. I felt that it was based on stereotypes on stranger danger, although the author's note at the end of the previous book suggests that it was inspired by modern slavery. Wikipedia states that only a quarter of slaves today are children, and while I can't currently find an explanation of the different ways people are enslaved, I believe that they are more likely to be sold by their families or those they already have a relationship with, than be grabbed off the streets by people they've never met.

Apart from my quibbles about plausibility of the slave ring, I enjoyed this book. Some nice excitement and adventure, and a sweet, if slightly conservative, romance.

[mipmoth]

Imagine them living in some random subway tunnel

[azzydoesstuff]

MACHINE. I had a nightmare. Can I sleep in your room tonight?

[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

Artemians gonna die isn’t he

[wrenhavenriver]

The Pontiff Sulyvahn bestowed a double-slashing sword upon a distant daughter of the formal royal family, ordering her to serve first as a dancer, and then as an outrider knight, the equivalent to exile.

[kikker-oma]

Art for Chapter 1 of "Travel Through the Darkness" by @mariasparrow ! (Also happy late birthday🎉)

Hope you like it❤️

[awesomenikie]

Do you think after every interaction with Rae in the first book Bren went home giddy and gushed about her to Artemian?

[miithridatism]

He needed to punch something. Men are allowed to do that, while we women are supposed to just hold it all inside us. But I’m game to hold a cushion for you to punch, or even spar with you, if you like.

A Darkness at the Door by Intisar Khanani

[grimspirit]