Why wasn’t she dead? I thought all the Blood who had Dorothea and Hekatah’s taint had perished.
Haven’t we already dealt with women like that? And of course, once again Roxie was back. She spreads rumors of his infidelity and when that doesn’t work, she tries to sabotage the carriage that Daemon and Jaenelle were in and when even that backfires, she decides to insinuate to Daemon that Jaenelle had taken another lover. In addition to seeing Daemon try to reach Jaenelle and rekindle their relationship, there was also the additional (and unnecessary plot) of another aristo woman, Lektra trying to lure Daemon to her bed. She lost her dark Jewels but gained a new one, the Twilight’s Dusk. The final story is about Daemon trying to help Jaenelle after the events of the Queen of the Darkness.
I didn’t read the story about Hekatah making Saetan’s life miserable, I had seen enough of her in the first three books and I had no intention of reading more about her. Thankfully that didn’t happen thanks to Marian. Here she was even more outrageous, letting people think that not only was Lucivar sleeping with her but when that didn’t work, she planned to accuse him of rape and let him wear the Ring of Obedience.
She knew what Lucivar had gone through in Terielle and she still let Roxie parade around him. She was just vile and I couldn’t understand why Luthvian let her stay with her when she knew that she made her son uncomfortable. She is so vile, like a disgusting insect, except even they serve some purpose. And perhaps, most of all I enjoyed their interactions with Jaenelle (the first time she, Marian and Saetan go shopping was hilarious) But then the irritants started piling on. For his part, Lucivar tried to be patient and mostly succeeded. They were a sweet pair and I liked that Marian wasn’t afraid of letting Lucivar know when he was behaving like a neanderthal. Luthvian may have redeemed herself at the end of Queen of the Darkness but here she was far from that version of herself. But in that story, we met Luthvian and Roxie yet again.
Then there was the second story about the courtship of Lucivar and Marian and even that was enjoyable. I liked the first story about the creation of the Web of Dreams, it was interesting, like an origin story. The trouble with Dreams Made Flesh is that ideally it should have focused on secondary characters, like the other queens instead of sticking with Jaenelle and Daemon. I loved the first three books and I loved the characters and I liked the way that arc ended.
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