It made her a very interesting character because she was so conflicted about everything that was going on around her. I loved that even though she felt disillusioned with life, she still held out a small spark of hope that things could be better – a spark that she couldn’t shake, no matter how hard she tried to convince herself it wasn’t there. Trella is an intelligent, incredibly strong character who (despite her protests to the contrary) puts others above herself. I think that it helped a lot that Trella did have a strong relationship with Cog – so even though she says she doesn’t really have many other connections, we have this one important relationship to help us see who she really is. Often when a character is detached, I have trouble connecting with them as well, but that didn’t happen in this book. I’ve just never known anyone with a complete lack of curiosity before and this seems to happen in books quite often. The main character is handed the key to her past and says, “Eh, no thanks, I don’t really need to know anything about that.” This really bugs me when it happens in a book because it just feels like a way to keep the reader in the dark (but still throw us a bone to let us know that there’s something interesting that we could learn at some point). I felt like the book spent a lot of time building up to something big and then everything kind of happened at once at the very end. It wasn’t horrible, but enough to make me take off a half star or so. The ending of the book felt a little bit rushed.
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