Natalie Monroe’s Reviews > An Ember in the Ashes > Status Update

There are so many tropes and problematic scenes. Yet I can't stop reading.

Moon cakes are a traditional Chinese food, guys. If the Scholars represent Ancient Greece, which they probably do based on the blurb, they should not be replacing Artemis with moon cakes.

The Commandant is basically Umbridge.

It constantly swings between interesting and insufferable. I'm getting whiplash.

In which Elias gets poetic about eyelashes and boobs.

This is so boring, I want to eat my own face.

"I wonder if he has a sister, a wife, a woman. But it wouldn't matter if he did. To him, I'm not someone's family. I'm just a thing to be subdued, used, and discarded."

I'm very uncomfortable with how some anti-rape posters say "Because she's someone's sister/mother/daughter/wife." This reminds me of it.

Late to the party as usual!