#also MOIRA. hmm i see you 👀 😆

[anakinthetrashking]

I am Spectacularly brainless today, but I finished reading Sunshield last night, and WOW. WOW. There's just so much to love??

I never got to do a review and recommendation post for the Creatures of Light trilogy that this duology is set ~20yrs after (because the past 6 months since I read them have been SOME MONTHS, my dudes), but definitely put them on your list to read. If you've ever expressed frustration in wanting female characters to be PEOPLE instead of 1-dimensional "love-interest" or girlboss" or "I Had 5 older bros", etc ,,, do yourself a favor and read these books.

It's so???? These women have goals and values and motivations and flaws that are so solely their OWN. And they take up SPACE!!! and when you read these books there's that resonant recognition, like, I know you, you're me, you're my sister, you're my best friend, I KNOW YOU. It's brilliant but also it was a little painful in my experience just because the POV/narrator of book 3 was such a detailed reflection of how I personally think and act that I was terrified to see my flaws plainly laid out in narrative form, and yet—and yet it was cathartic in the way that while the flaws were a part of it, they weren't the entirety. I saw strengths there, too.

Uh so yeah go get your hands on those books asap

But anwaysss Sunshield. SUNSHIELD. as soon as I finished the book I was like I NEED TO REREAD THIS IMMEDIATELY (I did not bc i had to sleep :c also my sis is reading it next sooo) after considering, i think I just need to start back at Woodwalker again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh noooo, too bad /s 😌

First thing about Sunshield is the disability representation. Holy crap. Visible and invisible, ongoing health issues, accidents, internalized ableism, ptsd and flashbacks, self-worth issues, self-worth tied to what you can do/provide so when that's gone what do you have??, not being able to do what you love and want to do and would be good at bc your own body WONT LET YOU. People treating you differently, pushing yourself past your limitations out of a need to "prove yourself ",,,And the disabilities aren't victimized or villainized,,, theyre all just people!!!

Its..It's a lot you guys. It's SO GOOD. But it's a LOT.

In more general book things, I mean obviously the characters are awesome! Well developed, as expected, and I am SO attached to them ahdkdhsm

Lark, Lark is EVERYTHIGN,,, and that rotating perspective was PERFECT. I loved when the plots started crossing the reader beings to be able to see these characters through another's eyes.

The writing itself is enjoyable to read, but the descriptive and symbolic imagery was especially amazing. There were so many details I loved, and the rotating perspective really played to its benefit, allowing each character to reveal different details before the whole picture comes together.

Loved how easy it was to imagine the scenes and to really fall into the story and follow the characters on their journey and feel that deep appreciation for nature even though you aren't experiencing things first hand

And then there's the use of Light, which is a VERY important concept within this world, and so i was already looking forward to seeing another country/region's aspects of light that they value, and how it shapes their culture and lifestyle! And the use of light narratively was soooooo genius. I was just over here like [VIBRATING IN EXCITEMENT] (╯✧∇✧)╯

And then there's the fact that the books make me want to ART!

Ah I feel like I'm missing so much that I want to say...

But yeah definitely check out the series!!! Highly recommend 👌 🥰😭

#sunshield #outlaw road #emily b martin #creatures of light #CoL #ahhhhhhh theres so many little details and quotes that im crazy about #also MOIRA. hmm i see you 👀 😆 #also while the wanting to art thing is aMAZING #me@me: do NOT start a huge project in a medium YOU DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO DO #also me: 😇🤫😏 #guess ill see what happens with that #for now my priority is REST bc it has been a looooong couple of months #disability representation #disability #disabilties #disabled #I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT TO TAG THAT #i told you my brain is MUSH today. ok well in general esp lately #got all those words out but brain STILL MUSH.