Burning Glass

Happy New Year and Happy Holidays,

It's been a while. How've you been? For some reason, I thought I was going to be able to finish this book in a decent amount of time while I was reacclimating with my family, the loves of my life. Didn't happen. But I'm back at the top of the year. I got Sims 4 for Christmas, and let me tell you. I've already become a homewrecker solely because I wanted a gay best friend. Everything's fine though. They were each other's beards. Anyway, books.

I finished Burning Glass by Kathryn Purdie today. It's about this girl, Sonya, who is an anomaly Auraseer, which is basically an empath on steroids. She's only been in Auraseer school for less than a year and the other chicks don't like her because she can't really do the Auraseer things. Then she ends up being the Royal Auraseer by tragedy and has to navigate the crowds of royals, the prince and the emperor. Eventually, she has to choose who gets her loyalty, who gets betrayed, and which emotions are truly hers. It's a whirlwind of adventures. I think that's everything. It's been a while since I've started this book.

Let's talk ships. At the beginning of this book, I despised Anton, the prince. Like, really hated him. He was rude and ungrateful and not understand him. I wanted him to leave, and I wanted to love the emperor. Then Valko, said emperor, was a creep. He made my stomach feel slimy and I was very uncomfortable. And then she would get caught up in his emotions and I hated it because he's the worst. He's an overgrown child someone gave power to. Then I realized Anton had Trump walls up, and I warmed up to him again. Then we find out some stuff about Anton, and I was hesitant to ship him with Sonya. If magic is so prevalent in this world that there are people who see into the future, then how can I ship something that will inevitably fall apart and not come to fruition. But Kathryn really wanted me to ship it, so here I am, wary but hopeful.

Sonya is a horrible Auraseer. I believe that is because she is not a real Auraseer, but something else. But as an Auraseer, horrible. She doesn't realize when her emotions are no longer her own when it's clear as day to me. It's worrying. Also, I think her origin story is hella shady. She has parents she has no memory of, a brother she has no memory of, and everything she knows about her past was told to her by others. Even how her powers originated was told to her. Shady. This leads me to believe that this is completely false and that she isn't a real Auraseer. All in all, despite how long this book took me to finish, I really enjoyed it. Don't know why it's called Burning Glass, that's a mystery to me, but I'm excited to read the next ones. I'm also ready to set my reading goal low in order to accomplish it. I'm going to Australia over the summer, so I don't trust myself. But also, probs gonna read over 100 books again. I read 138 this year, because I'm just that bitch. Anyway, later dude. Hope your 2019 is wonderful and blessed.

Ship: Pia and Yuri, Anton and Sonya
Ick: Valko

8/10
~Book Panda