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Share your thoughts here on Chapters 8-14 of Sorcery of Thorns

(view spoiler)[ Okay so following off of chapter 7, we see Elisabeth with Nathaniel and we get more of his character dynamic. We also see how his status as a powerful sorcerer works within the Thorn household as well as how sorcerers have demons working alongside them as their helper or servant (in a way). Although Silas has been shown to be a nice and good character, I'm still kind of sceptical about him. Is he working for Ashcroft who is the main villain in the series or am I looking too much into this? I have so many thoughts and so many questions since a lot of action occurred in these few chapters.

There was an action scene featuring a lot of lightning, carriage rides and monsters. It took me a while to get my footing here since I stopped halfway through the beginning of the fight. It took me a while actually, after everything to get into the flow of things since the writing style is pretty unique and the pacing is faster than what I'm used to.

In terms of characterisation, I found that after those action scenes, we got a good feel for Elisabeth's character. She tended to discover things way after we did which triggered me a lot. For example, we knew the whole time that Nathaniel was teasing her about the salamanders and the whole "sorcerers bathe in virgin blood" thing but Elisabeth only figured it out way later which annoyed me so much. It got worse though when Elisabeth realised Silas was a demon when we already knew which made me question how she didn't tie the ends together sooner.

Hopefully she gets better in the later chapters. I'm on chapter 18 right now and I think her character is improving as she's not being as naive as she has been in chapters 8-14 (hide spoiler)]