Oh, that's so cool she's your English reading origin story! I do remember reading her fanfic and really liking it, but I don't think it was finished yet and I was easily distracted by school so I fell out. By the time I was paying enough attention and remember it had been taken down. God, yahoogroups and geocities. That takes me back.
I do think Unmade is worth it. It's a very sad book, but there's also a vein of hope and determination running through it. #CHEESY There are consequences to messing with magic, but I think they all follow, and Kami really grows up and makes some important realizations about the people around her, how she relates to them, and what they mean to her as individuals. It's pretty rip-your-heart out in several places so the despair is still there, but it reminds of me the kind that's not despair because it's fun to torture characters, but the despair you face when you realize that the world is so much bigger and complicated and heartbreaking. The overall tone ends up being optimistic. I'm not sure how my perception of the agony of the series compares because I sucked them up all at once while everyone else I followed read them as they came out. If it's at all comparable to The Raven Cycle (the current series I'm torturing myself with) then I can imagine how having to wait to find resolution could make the rough feelings worse. But I do think it works really well as positive closure and is worth the pain in the book for the joy that exists at the end.
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I do think Unmade is worth it. It's a very sad book, but there's also a vein of hope and determination running through it. #CHEESY There are consequences to messing with magic, but I think they all follow, and Kami really grows up and makes some important realizations about the people around her, how she relates to them, and what they mean to her as individuals. It's pretty rip-your-heart out in several places so the despair is still there, but it reminds of me the kind that's not despair because it's fun to torture characters, but the despair you face when you realize that the world is so much bigger and complicated and heartbreaking. The overall tone ends up being optimistic. I'm not sure how my perception of the agony of the series compares because I sucked them up all at once while everyone else I followed read them as they came out. If it's at all comparable to The Raven Cycle (the current series I'm torturing myself with) then I can imagine how having to wait to find resolution could make the rough feelings worse. But I do think it works really well as positive closure and is worth the pain in the book for the joy that exists at the end.
~VAGUE COMMENT~ Spoilers, spoilers are so hard to avoid!