I Definitely Didn't Pace Around My Room When Their Knuckles Brushed And When HE BRUSHED HIS BARE KNUCKLES

i definitely didn't pace around my room when their knuckles brushed and when HE BRUSHED HIS BARE KNUCKLES BACK AGAINST HERS 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗗 𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙀𝘿 𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙍𝙎 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙎

I am normal about six of crows. I have never reread the bathroom scene. I didn’t put down the book for several minutes when I read “He was just Wylan Van Eck. He told them everything.” I don’t fantasize about the Ice Court heist before I fall asleep. I definitely haven’t tabbed every single Kanej scene.

Enough with the "roughed hands guy", "soft smooth hands girl"

NO, YOU KNOW WHAT?

Soft, white, neat, smooth hand, bastard of the Barrel, Kaz Brekker. Kaz Brekker's hands would resemble a porcelain doll. He always wear his gloves, not matter the situation, they are in the most pristine condition. He has a secret expensive lotion collection hidden in a drawer that applies rigorously every day because the feeling of dry and bare hands remind him of his days on the street. The are as smooth as a baby's face.

Rough, calloused, scarred, dry hands, Inej Ghafa. Inej, who is constantly climbing through every kind of surface, who doesn't take care of her hands once she is out of the Menagerie. Inej who had cheap, almost falling apart gloves, because she would rather spend money on knives, food... . Inej who takes comfort in having rough hands showing her actual work, work that she does for her team, not the one she is forced to in the Manegarie, who takes pride in being rough and scarred.

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242/365 days of kim seokjin

The thing is, I can forgive a lot of it. The scene where Kaz tries to help Inej with her wounds? I guess it was a nice nod to the CK scene, if slightly too soon. The "I will have you without Armour?" Fine. We all wanted to see that anyway. Rushing Wesper into a relationship rather than keeping as the slow-burn from the books? Okay. I really loved them on screen despite that. Kaz beating up the dregs? Definitely could have done without it for obvious reasons, but whatever. I can brush it off.

But the two things that are really grating on me are Kaz's face-off with Pekka Rollins and Inej leaving to hunt slavers. Because the POINT of these things happening towards the end of the second book is that there's a build up.

These characters go through so much. We learn everything about them, we see their struggles and we root for them. We spend SO much time learning about Kaz's thirst for revenge. We see moments where he starts to lose it when it comes to Pekka, and slowly start to learn why. And at the climax of Crooked Kingdom, there's so much on the line. We finally see him snap. There's a build up there of something that he's spent his entire life and two whole books working towards.

The first season of Shadow and Bone consisted of 8 episodes. So we can estimate that the crows had probably less than 4 hours of screen time. And we learned nothing about them, really. They were the mysterious trio that were hired to steal something. And then suddenly S2E1's "Brick by brick" turns into the peak of Kaz's character arc. It takes away the impact and the reasoning behind it.

And the same for Inej. Where is the journey? Where's the trauma that was inflicted by a woman who was truly evil? When we see Inej running into Tante Heleen for the first time in the duology, she freezes. She can't do anything. Are you telling me that the same girl who is so terrified of this woman can face her without a problem?

Again, there's so much of a development here as well. Inej has this realisation and this epiphany about what she wants to do. She wants to hunt down these slavers. She wants to make sure that nobody goes through the same stuff that she did. And when she sees Heleen after that, it's when she slowly starts to lose power over Inej. I mean, she steals the necklace straight from her neck, for crying out loud. Erasing Inej's trauma from S1 was a problem but they dug themselves in a deeper hole by killing off Heleen. She can't go through the journey that she's supposed to. Her entire character arc was just completely erased.

And the thing is, in the duology, Inej still goes through even more hell before she can get free from her indenture. The Ice Court Heist, Van Eck's torture, Dunyasha, etc. And yet... she's free before the start of the heist?

The heist is an important job for each crow. They all have a reason for being there, and they all have something on the line. None of them really think they're going to survive it, but they're trying anyway because, at this point, what do they really have to lose? And for Inej, this is her chance to get the money to leave the barrel. So... are you telling me that she's going to willingly come back to help on a life-threatening job for freedom that she no longer needs? What's going to happen with Kaz now that he's already had that stand-off?

Would love to know because right now I'm as lost as the rest of the book fans.

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