I finished book 2 finally, please clap. It was good stuff. One thing I was hoping for was the story to come down to a kind of intellectual fight between Kwin and Abigail, it seemed like that's where it was going. In the end it seems like it was Alastor v Abigail instead, but he was playing her and she didn't even know it. It was the only way their plan worked right, Abigail was so determined to kill Elvia but only because everything Alastor did made her want to do that. Imagine if Abigail had decided to actually kill Kwin first. Maybe Alastor would have gotten there faster if she was gonna do that but it seemed like he had to wait to show his hand.

I like how it went though, especially since Kwin eventually got her revenge kinda. She's also kind of a gigachad through a bunch of different parts of the book. She lectures a waitress on how to pronounce a dish and then doesn't even order it and she doesn't mind going into the tombs because she knows corpses don't cause trouble. The funniest part is at the end just before Abigail shows up, so this is after Hercules sails across the world after bringing the Shuski with him, he defends them, he risks his life (kinda) to help overthrow Devnon and other stuff right. Lindsay asks if Hercules will be ok staying behind, and Kwin's just like "I literally do not care" and walks away. Probably the biggest laugh I had in the book. Gonna start book 3 this week.

@Lindsay I love that and you're probably right. She tried talking to her dad and it didn't work and she was so hurt by it that it eventually factored into her deciding to try to end her life. Then he came back and made her upset again by trying to convince her to wake up. She definitely would have had something ready in case someone else came along because that's the one thing she wanted most.

@Proxy It is kind of cool to think about it like Alastor tricking Abigail the whole time. The defining moment was probably when Kwin got hurt because Elvia was there and could see it, and when that happened Alastor was like oh shit, I can't come back to help now because things are way different than any of us thought. I should probably just stay away, and in the meantime try to get Abigail to focus on Elvia since she's "safe" rather than Kwin, and it was also tricky because he had to keep Elvia's power hidden until the right moment where he could show his hand, because once he did they had a very limited time to get away. But I do agree a fight between Abigail and Kwin would have been really cool to see.