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SCSF: And where we are told that she has "too much compassion and love within her to be WolfStar." I beg to differ.

As do I. WolfStar kills kids. Azhure burns babies alive. WolfStar killed his own son. Azhure does something even worse to her own son. WolfStar gets called out on his bullshit and nobody trusts him. Azhure faces no such consequences.

Yes, clarity is indeed quite an issue with Douglass.

It's SO painfully obvious that Douglass did not plan things out properly beforehand. Or if she did, she didn't stick to the plan.

At least she managed to write some in her later books?

Such as Drago. Unless my memories of the second trilogy are faulty, he and Zenith were actually objectively good people all the way through. I need to spork the other two books in that trilogy, because my GOD it gets ridiculous.

(As for what you refer to... it really is some of the most gratuitous stuff in here.)

Yeah, no shit. If everyone including the narrator is just going to forget about it forever, why is it even there? And why did the author feel the need to write it in the first place? Was she just trying to be edgy? If so it didn't work because there are no repercussions for anyone involved.

Finally, what does he have to gain by trying to talk Axis out of this that would outweigh the possibility of discovery? He cannot convince Axis in such a short time, after all.

Well, Axis does change his tune about the Forbidden far too quickly and easily, but that wasn't WolfStar's doing. It was just the author being lazy and giving him Sue foreknowledge again.

Edit: These "perimeter guards" are probably for the camp's perimeter, though there should still be guards around Smyrton.

Yeah, and if Axis was a "brilliant commander" there absolutely would be because... duh? There are Forbidden abroad, and there's no reason to assume Raum and Shra were it. What if the village came under attack because more of their kind decided to mount a rescue attempt? Sara Douglass had no fucking idea how military organisations actually function. Or what constitutes a halfway competent military commander, come to that.