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brainrotlesbian · 7 months

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Am I about to word vomit about a series that isn’t super well-known and I haven’t even technically finished since the fourth book was released and I never read it? Yes. Yes I am.

The Ascendance series. Formerly the Ascendance Trilogy but I just discovered there was a fourth book released in 2020 (I think I was told before but I forgot 💀). A bit of a staple series in my adolescence and cemented my love of sarcastic asshole main characters (along with Percy Jackson)

But, more seriously, beyond Jaron’s fuckery on the surface, I kinda wanna dig deeper into his character. Cause, even thinking about his story for more than a minute is rather sad. He was the second-born of his family, the royal family, and an embarrassment to them because of his shenanigans (I’m willing to bet he has ADHD). The black sheep. The screw up. Everything that his brother, the crown prince, wasn’t, and it reflected poorly on him. He was impulsive and passionate, but most of all, he was hardly 11 when he went missing.

11. Eleven years old when he barely missed being attacked and murdered by pirates. Eleven when he escaped to Avenia, a country that was looking to devour his own and slaughter his people and murder his family. Eleven when he was told by his father not to come home, as it was his duty to prevent war between the two countries; one that Jaron’s own, Carthya, would lose. Eleven when he was disowned, essentially, and orphaned and had to survive in a hostile country. The jump from prince to starving street urchin couldn’t have been a pleasant one.

Then he spends the next four years living as this vagrant. I can’t imagine what his thoughts towards his family were; how his father told him not to return, for the good of Carthya. How his mother would never know what happened to him, her cherished son, and simply had to wonder for those four years what had happened, until she was murdered with her husband and son. The revelation that Conner had murdered his family in order to prompt the power struggle to find the missing prince, or rather, create a convincing copy of the prince. And the further revelation that Conner had hired the pirates to attack Jaron’s ship to kill him, but had failed.

Would he not feel as if his family’s deaths were his fault? He never got to say goodbye to them, not properly, and he was hardly 15 when they died. He was still a kid. He already buries his true feelings and emotions under layers of bitterness and sarcasm and defiance. Almost every one around him betrays him or tries to kill him in one way or another. His entire world is deceit and lies and murder, so it’s no wonder he’d grow up salty and bitter at the world around him.

He’s king. 15 and king of a country. And despite everything, he still does everything in his power to protect his people. Cause even if he is salty and bitter at the world and the fucking assholes around him, he’s going to do his duties as king and protect his people to the best of his ability. He’s protective of those he cares about. We see that with Imogen, how from day 1 at Farthenwood he’s sticking up for her and looking out for her. He often goes to ridiculous extremes to protect the ones closest to him. Even to the point where he puts himself in jeopardy.

#aspen stfu challenge level impossible #I am so normal about these books #they shaped me as a person and an asshole #the ascendance trilogy #the ascendance series #the false prince #the runaway king #the shadow throne #Jennifer A. Nielsen

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bubblesandpages · 1 year

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Jaron @ the end of the false prince

#the false prince #Fizzy talks #reading #the ascendance trilogy #Jennifer A. Nielsen

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cobalts-corner · 2 years

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One Year Later....

I made this Imogen art about 1 year ago:

So I redrew it!

Enjoy Me finally posting tas content because I need to reread the books so I can actually endorse myself of Fandom conversations

#the ascendance series #the ascendance trilogy #my art #cobalt’s art #the runaway king #fan art #fanart #jennifer a. nielsen #imogen #imogen eckbert

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penspagesandpulses · 1 month

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Book Review: An Ambitious Hope by Lucy Winton

I was SO EXCITED to join the ARC team for the first book in the Hope Ever After series!!! I read most of the book while waiting to pick up my little sister from school, and I enjoyed every second of it!!! I loved getting to meet Ruby and Alarick. As an older sister, I can definitely relate to Ruby wanting to protect her younger sister from her kidnappers. I loved how Alarick was driven by his…

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#An Ambitious Hope #ARC #book review #book reviews #clean romance #fairy tale retelling #family #fantasy #Hope Ever After #Jennifer A. Nielsen #Little Red Riding Hood #Lucy Winton #reading #sisters #The Traitor&039;s Game

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kpopandbookschild · 2 months

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Book pole round 1 #7

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mythos05reviews · 7 months

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1/5 stars I wished I had DNFed this book. I wasn't planning to read but Spotify had recommended it, it was a free version, and I needed background noise. From the start it was sort of iffy because I couldn't get fully immersed in the story but I had hoped it would get better. It did not at least in my opinion.

Things I appreciated: . Kestra's wit/sarcasm . an attempt at giving us two perspectives .it has a nice cover

Things I didn't appreciate: This book wasn't particularly good and it is definitely not memorable. I feel like in a couple of months I'll forget that I had read until I came across my own review. I still am in disbelief that this happened over the course of 4 days. At times it felt as if the different days merged or more had passed. This also brings me to another point which is that it lacked world-building. Places were mentioned vaguely as well as world mechanisms but it felt half-assed and felt like it was a missed opportunity to further involve the reader. Perhaps this would have helped in my case because j didn't get attached to the story at all. The one character I actually cared for died.

I liked the idea of having two different perspectives in this book. Unfortunately I felt like it wasn't executed well. It feels as if there wasn't much difference in the perspectives and that at times the two voices merged so much that it just felt like one voice.

The romance was the worst aspect of this book in my opinions. It could just be due to my deep hatred of the instant love trope. Also I felt like Kestra had more chemistry with other characters than with her love interest so that didn't help much either.

I don't recommend this book. It's definitely one that you can skip.

#the traitors game #book review #bookshelf #bookaholic #bookworm #bookstagram #book blog #reading #audiobook #read #almost dnfed #i was in the trenches #instant love #changing perspectives #kestra #Jennifer A. Nielsen

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bookcoversonly · 9 months

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Title: The Scourge | Author: Jennifer A. Nielsen | Publisher: Scholastic (2021)

#books #The Scourge #Jennifer A. Nielsen

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kernelscorner · 11 months

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It's mostly Science Fiction/Fantasy books that are a hit in this edition of cover revelations, but a few stragglers outside this genre also made their way through...

#Jim Butcher #Peter S Beagle #Peter S. Beagle #Matthew Ward #Josiah Bancroft #Michael J. Sullivan #Michael J Sullivan #Jennifer A. Nielsen #Jennifer A Nielsen #Jeff Kinney #Wimpy Kid #Diary of a Wimpy Kid #F.H. Batacan #FH Batacan #F. H. Batacan #F H Batacan

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jarondont · 6 months

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Okay, first it's Jennifer Nielsen saying there's screen stuff going on with one of her books (duh, Ascendance).

Then it's the PJO show annoucement.

AND I JUST FOUND OUT THAT ATLA IS GETTING A SHOW TOO?! Y'ALL I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO EXCITED IT'S ALL THREE OF MY FAV FANDOMS

#jennifer nielsen #the ascendance series #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv #pjo show #pjo series #pjo adaptation #pjo tv series #pjo tv adaptation #atla #avatar last airbender #atla live action #avatar the last airbender

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the-ascendant-doodler · 1 month

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Hey pals, can anyone who is in the Ascendance series fandom please recommend or like. Reblog or reply to this post with good quotes from the ascendance series? Any quote that you think is deep or wise, or just a really good quote by anyone from any book in the series. Thank you so much anyone who replies 🥺👉🏽👈🏽

#i need #Some ideas #the ascendance series #jennifer nielsen

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ascendantmarv · 9 months

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forever grateful to my english teacher for making us read the false prince

#the ascendance series #the false prince #the runaway king #the shadow throne #the captive kingdom #the shattered castle #the ascendance trilogy #jennifer a nielsen

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camyfilms · 10 months

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HUSTLERS 2019

Start 'em off with a single, then a double, then a triple, then back to a double, and back to a single. You want 'em drunk enough to get their credit card then sober enough to sign the check.

#hustlers #2019 #constance wu #jennifer lopez #lili reinhart #keke palmer #lizzo #cardi b #julia stiles #mercedes ruehl #wai ching ho #madeline brewer #trace lysette #mette towley #g-eazy #frank whaley #paul nielsen

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bubblesandpages · 1 year

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My heart is breaking for baby Jaron (╥ _ ╥)

#why would you do that to him?!?!?!#the false prince #Fizzy talks #reading #the ascendance trilogy #Jennifer A. Nielsen

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retro-vintage-time · 7 days

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penspagesandpulses · 9 months

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Why authors write clean romance, part 2

YOU CAN READ PART 1 WHERE I EXPLAIN MY RATIONALE FOR THIS POST HERE!!! Unlike yesterday’s post, I’m not going to make you endure a long explanation before delving into the good stuff. I’m really excited for you to see these amazing responses from these authors I admire. Nadine Keels (inspirational historical fantasy and contemporary love stories) graphic provided by Nadine Keels I’ve read six…

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happygirl2oo2 · 26 days

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“He talks whenever he's nervous, or excited, or bored, or for that matter, awake.”

-Gideon / Libby about Nico at some point, probably

#quote from The Shadow Throne by Jennifer A. Nielsen #incorrect ta6 quotes #nico varona #nico de varona #libby rhodes #gideon drake #nicolibby #nicogideon #the atlas six #the atlas paradox #the atlas complex #ta6 #olivie blake #the atlas series #the atlas trilogy #incorrect quotes

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