Did I finally find Romantasy I love?? 😭 The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

I think that series dealt with the emotional weight and the trauma involved in being sort of a chosen one and being involved in others pain and suffering and grappling with your own sacrifices in the name of greatness and whether it really is great, you know, at the end of the day.

Do I think this is a flawless masterpiece? No. Did I love it? Yes.

I think that the it's not a perfect book, but I think Sort of Kaien by ML Wong does a really great job of trying to at least acknowledge and examine the emotional toll of war and death and these epic battles that in so much fantasy end in a bloody way, but then everyone moves on as if nothing happened and there's no real guilt, remorse, trauma, grief.