the 3rd book was as filled with adventures as ever but this time our heroine was magicless but not powerless. i liked how she never gives up BUT it does feel a tad unrealistic. look I'm not new to fantasy stories with MCs who do ANYTHING for the ones they love and for the greater good but it always makes me feel like it's just not how someone with so much responsibility would act... like being brave wouldn't be easy. sure it isn't necessarily easy for Amari either but still... i think I'm in the minority when I say I still like Dylan, I guess I just can't give up this idea of him I have where he turns out to be right after all. it sounds like a better story than this one, which of course is gonna make you ask 'why are you reading this series then?' because I keep having this hope that it will go the way I want it to. like the lesson the author is giving seems a bit problematic, where he seems to condemn standing up for the oppressed people, he doesn't seem to like resistance and the MC trying to be 'one of the good ones' always keeps on being celebrated and as the right way to be... it just pisses me off. just because you're an oppressed class/group doesn't mean you have to just follow all the rules and be perfect to prove them wrong. you don't change the status quo that way, you gotta fight. just because you're not being treated as badly as the others doesn't mean you get to sideline the rest ya know? i just want this series to get more serious, and make the villain be more believable and human (come on why is the whole world so terrified of a child with mental issues?! also isn't it the parents' and society's fault he's that way? why is everyone giving up on him getting rehabilitated/redeemed?) now I'm not saying the series did everything bad, there were attempts to challenge the status quo but it wasn't enough. does this mean that the author is saving the big guns for later? maybe, I really hope so, because for some reason I'll still stick with it because if I don't analyze it too deeply I still like the story in a purely fun way and because the world-building and the MC are unique somehow.