I loved the scary parts and the hurt parts and the all-consuming love parts. Overall I loved this novella! I loved seeing Des in a new, vulnerable light. There is even the story of how he became the Bargainer which I think I fell in love with the boy more (which I didn’t think possible) after reading it! This helped to flesh his character out, not that he wasn’t already, but it does help in understanding his motives. All the stories he’s shared with Callie (even a few Malaki shared) from Des’s perspective. I think the reason I loved this novella so much is because as the reader I got to see some of my favorite scenes from the perspective of Des. He has built his kingdom on the ashes of his father’s barbarity. Where his father was cruel, Des wants to be just. This is a man who witnessed the death of his mother and killed his own father….why didn’t that register with me until now?! Everything Des does is in direct contrast to his father. But I don’t think I got just how tortured he was. I knew that like Callie he was a tortured soul. Des is a complex character that I don’t think I understood fully until reading this book. So getting a novella from his POV was, to say the least, exciting. Told exclusively from the King of Night’s perspective, this novella is a glimpse into the life of Des, before and after Callie entered it.ĭes is my favorite male character written by Laura Thalassa (sorry Pluto ?). Oh Desmond *swoon* The Emperor of Evening Stars by Laura Thalassa is everything I wanted and didn’t know I needed from The Bargainer series.
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