Haaaa, I liked that speech so much I forgot the Bayou Moon thing was by the same author. Maybe the Bayou Moon was an editorial thing and this is Andrews' push back?
Honestly, I think this was my favourite book by far - not only because of the personal growth for Kate, all the meat and conflict for her, Andrea, Kate&Andrea, all the really awesome emotional interplay between characters - and Kate and Curran wrestling out their differences in a really nice way; with all of their differences still there but, like human beings do, compromising for each other - Kate and Julie (I'm...waiting for that to play out too, but with hope?) and just so much lovely magic and loyalty and humour and politics and those gorgeous, gorgeous IC smackdowns of the ~animal instincts~/being a shapeshifter made me an abusive partner BS shapeshifter books love. (I also really liked the way the Temple and rabbis were brought back into the series - with respect, dignity and humanity. I kind of had a *....leeeeean back dubiously* reaction to Kate being brutally dismissive of their outrage in the last book; in character and understandable in context, but an echo of funky.)
I honestly had a bit of a flatline reaction to the Kate's mom reveal. It's a terrible thing to do, but my response was hampered by, well, Voron - he was a general serving Roland (meaning mass murder, conquering, etc) and complicit in the planned murder of her child. But neither Evdokia (who explicitly blamed his abuse of Kate and reprehensible personality on her mother) or Kate - Kate's reaction being completely understandable - really seemed to take that into account. I'm guessing Voron could have been plenty vicious with Kate even if he genuinely loved her mom and wasn't fried.
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Honestly, I think this was my favourite book by far - not only because of the personal growth for Kate, all the meat and conflict for her, Andrea, Kate&Andrea, all the really awesome emotional interplay between characters - and Kate and Curran wrestling out their differences in a really nice way; with all of their differences still there but, like human beings do, compromising for each other - Kate and Julie (I'm...waiting for that to play out too, but with hope?) and just so much lovely magic and loyalty and humour and politics and those gorgeous, gorgeous IC smackdowns of the ~animal instincts~/being a shapeshifter made me an abusive partner BS shapeshifter books love. (I also really liked the way the Temple and rabbis were brought back into the series - with respect, dignity and humanity. I kind of had a *....leeeeean back dubiously* reaction to Kate being brutally dismissive of their outrage in the last book; in character and understandable in context, but an echo of funky.)
I honestly had a bit of a flatline reaction to the Kate's mom reveal. It's a terrible thing to do, but my response was hampered by, well, Voron - he was a general serving Roland (meaning mass murder, conquering, etc) and complicit in the planned murder of her child. But neither Evdokia (who explicitly blamed his abuse of Kate and reprehensible personality on her mother) or Kate - Kate's reaction being completely understandable - really seemed to take that into account. I'm guessing Voron could have been plenty vicious with Kate even if he genuinely loved her mom and wasn't fried.