My main problem with the Awakening is how there is zero sense of discovery. The whole book is just the Mc being handed everything and a love bomb of “I can’t believe this!” And “Marco, did you see what I did?!?” When everyone clearly did, and this dialogue is contributing nothing towards furthering the plot.

She gets handed literally everything. A magical realm, housing, a magical bond with a mystical creature that she ‘should she have sensed before but it wasnt the right time until we happened to be just randomly going past this area again’, a great book career because magic… and then there’s the really dark, sudden turn for two sentences that kinda allude to sa? Really disturbing turn for a book that has basically been a vomit of overindulgent feelings with no real sense of plot/danger.

Yeah… I don’t like this book.