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Because he wouldn't be an acceptable love interest unless he was an absolute asshole and throwing up red flags every few seconds. And as someone who loves books, this fact leaves me in despair every time. There's a reason why I avoid romances like the plague.

I'm currently attempting to spork The Fourth Wing and this problem has if anything only gotten worse. :(

I'm also starting to think that Gorgonzola is a very uninventive villain.

When we actually meet him later we will indeed learn that he's a brainless idiot who cannot think for himself. Axis is a stupid immature brat, but Gorgonzola (I love that nickname! But then I also love cheese and everything to do with it. Oooh, says here gorgonzola was named after a town in Italy in 879AD! That is some REALLY old cheese) has the mental capacity of a five year old child. Which just makes his eventual defeat at Axis' hands even more embarrassingly pathetic.

Oh, look. More evidence that these people are actually trying to sabotage everything.

Seriously, fuck the Sentinels. They're a bunch of manipulative creeps who suck at their jobs and whose only real purpose when all is said and done is to provide Axis with the weapon he needs to kill Gorgonzola for some very poorly explained reason.

Oh, and to provide comic relief which isn't funny. Ogden and Veremund in particular wind up becoming obnoxious comic relief characters who are actually just insanely annoying.

This storm must be moving so slowly it's practically going backwards. So considerate of Gorgonzola to give everyone plenty of time to prepare.

Ah, another fantasy novel in which the heroes have access to the Pause Button.

...dance party? Seriously, that's what it sounds like he's gearing up to do--some kind of raucous party to chase away the fear.

It doesn't help that Axis has never been shown having any camaraderie with his troops at all. What, does he regularly hold concerts to entertain them all with his amazing singing and harping? And this never changes, by the way. The Axe Wielders are never anything other than a bunch of ass-kissing nonentities who would follow Axis to Hell and back because he's just such an amazing commander who "grieves for every man he loses" in the field. Which is a lie; after the climatic battle in book two he just fucking GOES TO SLEEP while Belial is left to stay up all night burying the corpses.