A Village of Cults and Lore | [ACOTAR Ch3]

[00:00:00]previously on a court of thorns and Roses another hard day of work to keep this family alive now if only they weren't so dang useless end yourself dweeb the next morning Nesta and Elaine accompany Fara to town neither of them had said a word to each other since the night prior but the sisters won a piece of fara's promised coin so awkward silence it is they turn a corner and boom bump into this world's edition of Jehovah's Witnesses High F Edition here's the piece of World building that gets hammered home real good in this chapter the high used to preside as the humans' overlord they were not gods they were not benevolent the majority of the human populists now regard them as the bad guys yet they have a sect of fanatic worshippers go figure though one of my reading friends and I have both picked up big Attack on Titan Vibes here and and that interested me a whole lot on my first reading attempt I was absolutely here for f Jager out for f blood because [ __ ] them that's why or make her a gobby character and have her overcome her Prejudice through uh arduous and traumatic means unfortunately I could tell by around chapter 7 or 8 that that was not what I was going to get but I'm getting ahead of myself so the high F Jehovah Witnesses are permitted to explicit around the town square for a few hours at a time and they rightfully make people nervous a woman at the head of the flock is like praise be do you have a moment to discuss the words of our Lord and savior blessed fairy Jesus the sisters try to walk away but the head acolyte is persistent anesta has to resist throwing hands for that order could become a true nuisance if agitated wait wait what why is there an M Dash Interruption at the paragraph like that when the next idea doesn't really elicit shock Nessa didn't throw a punch in the middle they was thought or anything a regular old period would have sufficed well I know I said I'd lay back on the M dashes but look at this funky little guy just stood out there look at it a period would have been just fine here Nesta reveals an iron bracelet that she and Elaine wear to supposedly ward off Fay convenient passerbys hurl insults at the zealots the head acolyte is offended that Nesta would wear that insulting piece of metal but she then regains her composure she's all I used to be ignorant like all of you until the word of the Blessed guided me it so happened that a friend of my cousin was selected as an offering to Fairyland and they no doubt dwell in riches as a high face bride if you would only lend an ear for a moment yeah no she was likely eaten that's why she never returned the acolyte refers the high as benevolent Masters who love in a Land of peace and plenty and you should all be honored to live amongst them should they bless you with their attention and O that's a level of fanaticism that Rings awkward to me cuz when I glanced at Moss's other series I noticed that she seems to have a real heart on for fa Supremacy I just have a feeling that the acolytes words aren't going to be challenged in a meaningful way I already know there's some kind of bad blight going on but that's a surface level conflict my gut tells me that once the day is saved this acolyte will be proven right and that makes me almost as uncomfortable comtable as the ableism from last chapter farra decides to intervene by nudging nesto away before they draw in a crowd once they are far enough from the group phra ditches her sisters to go sell her Goods her usual vendors give her a playing hard to get Vibe so they can suck it today no quality spoils for them she then spots a tough mercenary perched on the town Fountain this person has such interesting eyes not just one shade of black but but dot dot dot many okay girl silly ass use of ellipses aside I'm going to need you to break out the hexad decimal chart right now and point out the exact 50 Shades of Black you mean get out of here with your thoughts of color and light and shape nonsense already so FIS sells the pelts to the mercenary for a hefty Penny mercenaries are paid well out where they are since only Nobles could afford them the villagers could only cling to the strength of a treaty forged between Fay and humans some 500 years ago and even then it's still a free-for-all for the lower Monsters the powerless villagers have pretty much resigned themselves to be sitting ducks of course there are scammers that Prey Upon the people's fears Trinkets and charms of iron that totally act as protection Isa halale oh there he is again he offered to buy one for phra but that felt too personal for her she's not one for that kind of commitment only in for the here and now living life on the edge which it makes sense she did snipe a giggle wolf after all as the mercenary Forks Over the coins she offers words of Hunter advice don't Venture far into the woods there's been stories floating around of those things slipping between the fairyland's invisible border wall like I've mentioned the high acted as the humans' overlord they've enslaved them for well over Millennia the humans built grandio Civilizations for the high F to Revel in then the humans revolted a bloody war broke out and it took six mortal Queens to craft their treaty a magical border wall was erected where as you can see here the Fate dominate a good 90% or so of fantasy UK and The Mortals have been relegated to Fantasy Southampton also I am quite curious about this night court up here I really hope they have egregious Scottish accents I'm talking fullon Final Fantasy 9 Style Al hose I will accept nothing less anyway this border of theirs seems to be imperfect as fake creatures have been slipping through and causing Mayhem in the Mortal region for example some funky looking little guy called a martax had snuck up on a random Village and shredded everything and everyone there to Ribbons there's another type of fake creature that had a poisonous bite which took the mercenary out of commission for many months but that's nothing compared to the incomprehensible abilities of a f High Lord Lord we are so so lucky they happen to choose to mine their business on their side of the wall all this to say the humans are to an unfair degree it had to have been a miracle for humans to achieve their autonomy in the first place to reiterate these face still have stands farra and the mercenary part ways as nesa rolls up and drags farra back they almost have an argument about a time when some other random mercenary pretty much robbed nesa and Elaine but nesa glances over and notices dot dot dot my man the highly anticipated Isaac freaking Hil In the Flesh leaning against some build and roll practicing his blue steel smolder there's probably some wind blowing his luscious locks just the whole cool dude kit and Kaboodle aesthetic theya and Isaac had befriended each other when her family had moved to the Village one day they were just chilling talking about the greatness of eggs and for once in that moment farra didn't feel alone a week later she pulled his ass into what becomes their love barn and they've been in a situationship ever since phra and Isaac make eye contact he nods in a familiar Direction and mosies off to their special Barn where will be waiting the book assures us that Isaac takes a contraceptive Brew so they're as careful as they can be in that world a world where STDs don't seem to be a thing but I mean I I am reading a fantasy so LOL fav presses a 20 Mark copper into Lane's hand and says she'll meet them at home later said later the family has eaten dinner and are chilling by the fire before bedtime elain and Nesta spent the money they received and that apparently satiated Nesta enough that she voluntarily chopped more wood before phra needed to ask how is that nice of her everything's peaceful enough that far's gearen to approach the Thomas mandre topic again except no she isn't a deafening Roar pieces the quiet as the front door slams open snow bursts inside and an ominous growling shape lingers in the doorway and of chapter okay so we last had character intro and dynamics of chapter now we got biest World building the chapter without it feeling like an absolute Lord dump or anything I've definitely read way worse Exposition dumps as of late so this kind of felt like a bit of a repri for me the deck really seems stacked against the humans though I feel for farra and understanding her hatred for the fa folk as they're being hyped up as this Unstoppable and merciless Force again Attack on Titan Vibes phon may not be able to join the equivalent of the survey core but the first time I read this I got excited on how Pharaoh will handle the Fay when that time inevitably comes would she eventually become a David against a fa liath well something nonhuman had just burst through her front door so at least we won't have to wait long to have an idea where this could go wait wait what if best boy Isaac becomes the Levi character he may not seem like much more than the brooding pretty boy type but he also seems to have an inner Darkness within him I can tell I know a dark horse when I see one with the way he's been utilized thus far I wouldn't count him out of the game just yet watch as farra has her journey Isaac will have his Attack on Titan style Adventure offscreen they can meet again in book two or three or whatever and they'd both serve the most maybe they'd be friends maybe they'd be foes oh man the drama oh that would be the dream [Music] yeah