Stessa: Stessa is 16 (and dark-skinned, yay!), and new to the throne of Ludia (the artisan sector). Iris also knew (accidentally) the other queens’ secrets. She’s also a sapphic (view spoiler) ! Yay! Iris’ beef with the Queenly Laws: she wants to make untraditional changes, that are against the code. She’s the queen for the first quadrant: Archia (the agricultural sector). After all you’ve been through, wouldn’t you try to see another angle before jumping to a conclusion? Again, near the end, it was so out-of-character for him to turn his trust on Kera.

Kera successfully bamboozles him, and goes to the market to pawn the gadget… but wait! Who’s in the audience!?! IT’S VARIN! Skip 200 pages, Varin’s our new love interest. Mackiel orders Kera to steal from this guy, a messenger on the streets. The female characters (for once) were the multidimensional figures!!! Mackiel wasn’t as fleshed out as he could have been, BUT WHO CARES. He traded his childhood for … glory? I don’t really know what. They’ve known each other since they were 10ish, messing around on the streets. Mackiel takes over his dad’s pawn business, using Keralie as his own pawn. Mackiel: Our Sam, if Sam turned out to be a scumbag. Kera was a wonderful character to follow, except the ending felt a little out-of-character after everything she’d been through. She’s so gritty, she even hurt her parents because she wanted to make the point clear - she was not a part of their family, and she was not a part of their lifestyle. In fact, she even has her own rough-tough boyfriend (or… love interest) and assassin/thief boss. She’s just like Celaena from The Assassin’s Blade. It showed women as multifaceted and complex individuals. I gobbled this book up in 3 sittings– I LOVED IT! The writing was phenomenal: I loved the world building and the characters. The shooter also posted a series of links to other sites, including one of a YouTube account with one video posted the day of the shooting.This is my second read while on the cruise.

He noted that he had expressed similar thoughts to his commanding officer. In his final post, he lamented what his family might say and wrote that no psychologist would have been able to fix him. Many of his posts referenced his mental health. In the weeks before the attack, the shooter posted more than two dozen photos of the Allen Premium Outlets mall, where the mass shooting occurred Saturday afternoon, and surrounding areas, including several screenshots of Google location information, seemingly monitoring the mall at its busiest times.

The gunman does not have a criminal history. The shooter's posts were riddled with misogynistic rants, and he even references specific incel forums and valorizes Elliot Rodger, whose 2014 mass murder spree in Isla Vista, California.

His personal politics were very hard to figure out /igGpzGJzkt

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