The highlights as I continued my descent into illiteracy trying to read this book (part one can be found here lol):

"The girl's voice cut through the noise like a lacy embrace" [white guy blinking meme.gif] what does this MEAN?

"The water rippled calmly with no hint of the turmoil from earlier. Instead the stream burbled quietly, spitting on rocks with the same contained anger she had reserved for one person." this is wayyyyy too convoluted to make any sense

"Still...an edge in her voice had slipped. Like a hidden dagger falling out of her sleeve." This! is! not! good!

"the spindle glinted with a sharp smile as it pointed in her direction" gonna need @bbyoozi to make another visual aid to demonstrate this description because i'm confused as FUCK

"Shadowed thoughts passed behind the veil of green eyes as they took in her words and made sense of them" there are worse metaphors but i felt the need to include one with "veil" because there are just so many of them crammed into the book and it's always confusing and bad

"The bitter smell of salt and tears wafted through the caves like a crisp morning" ??????¿¿¿¿¿????¿¿¿¿¿

Anyway. I'm exhausted.

(Another obligatory note that these are from the ARC and not final/subject to change upon official publication)