If they have to be endgame fine, but SJM need to make him way more interesting. He's a really forgettable guy compared to the others like Therion and Ruhn. Which is sad cause Rhysand and Rowan were such amazing leading male characters. Hunt just seems so bland next to them. I honestly could not tell you what he looked like except gray wings and muscles. Also Lehabah was my fave so I'm really upset she's gone so soon.
Yeah! Also Hunt has light brown skin. Just saying. *cough*
I feel like Hunt had this problem hanging over his head the whole book - his need to “atone” by killing for Micah, the threat of his contract being turned over to Sandriel - but it was solved with little to no consequence? Like? Hypaxia just Did It and all that stress and angst about having to kill for people who had him enslaved is just over? It doesn’t make his story feel as compelling or memorable as it could have. And beyond that backstory, he has like no real personality. I almost wish that he really had been planning to rebel and had stood up for the fact that he is ENSLAVED and maybe Bryce should idk, think that’s a bad thing and not just casually work for The Man.
tl;dr I’m pretty disappointed that the mass enslavement of humans was just brushed off the whole book.
I’m super sad that Lehabah is gone, I think I legit posted while reading that she was my favorite? Her and Danika. Whomp whomp, don’t get attached I guess.
Salty opinion to start - I feel like fandom as a whole doesn’t pay attention to what people look like while they are reading and then expect the fan art to fill in the gaps. The great thing about reading is that you get to use your imagination to use the clues and make them in your own mind. Urgh.
Sorry - pet peeve of mine there because I feel like in crescent city sjm actually tried to use more skin colour descriptions, more height descriptions and body shape descriptions. Each character looks and feels different - from the clues I picked up anyway.
So Hunt - He’s a warrior who stormed a mountain, has strong arms (a sjm trademark). Bryce comments on his ass. He wears a crown of thorns - it’s tattooed, referred to as a halo and also as a dark crown. I’m thinking his halo tattoo is dark in pigment according to that. His name is actually Orion -‘d he explains why his mother chose this. He has “dark eyes” also described as “black eyes”. He has large grey feathered wings - differing from Isiah who has pristine white ones. He has “common blood” literally one sentence is “she knew those grey wings, and the dark shoulder length hair, and the cut of those broad shoulders”…. like… what else do we need to know?
Anyway. Sorry. Tangent. Pet peeve. I’ll chill now. Here’s some things that might help people get into his character…
So with hunt - He’s always looked down on for being a bastard. He felt protective of his mother but she is also looked down upon. And I feel like his personality is formed by this “not being good enough” but at the same time I think all the other angel wing peeps are jealous of him. He’s got the most unique gift - lightning - and so much power. So in order for the asteri and other angels to put him in his place I feel like there is this emphasis on lineage and him not being good enough.
Next - He was manipulated by his first love and I’m pretty sure he woulda been young then (I can check properly this is just from memory at this point). An arch angel vs an angel. I don’t feel like that relationship was good. There is a massive power imbalance there. I mean - bryce talks about alphaholes the whole book - maybe hunts first love is a alphahole. He might worship her but I don’t know if she worshipped him back. Could be a super icky back story about power imbalance and abuse of power.
Hunt also is enjoying what he has in the apartment because he appreciates it. It’s like a sign that he cares. Maybe that’s his personality - he does things to show affection. It makes sense, since he stormed mt heron for his first love.
I feel like he wasn’t the focus in this book - he was there, but Bryce was the main character. There are clues for the future - like always with sjm, but he’s not the MC so we don’t get everything. We also have 3 books to learn about these people and their past. And why a demon thinks Hunts lineage is interesting. Ya know?
Encyclopedia friend to the rescue
echoing the whole bit about descriptions
SJM tried in this book, can we please not forget what people look like when for once she has actually described them pretty well!
Hunt has brown skin! It’s there in the text, either as light brown or brown or golden brown, and if I see one more white washed art of him I’ll scream. though tbh I’ve only seen one really bad one so…but I won’t @ the person who posted lol
i love everything you’ve said about power imbalance @rayonfrozenwings. It makes a lot of sense- Hunt has never had his own life, so maybe his personality will become more clear as he builds it.
@aelin-godkiller with a theme of abuse in SJM’s stories and I really do feel like Hunt’s story is going to be one of emotional manipulation to get him to do what they want. I don’t want it to be that because it will hurt me. But I also know SJM loves to see us in pain over her characters. haha. She cackled at the event I went to when she was talking about how people loved Tamlin in the start. cackled.
And yeah, with the descriptions thing- it doesn't take that much to find the answer in an e-book. I will look for anyone who doesn't have access to an e-book if they need to know someone's skin colour. Bryce is also *shock horror* not white. I’m not talking about character privilege or character attributes or the world history - literally just the way SJM describes their skin colour/wing colour/eye colour. And if a person creating something can get every other freaken detail right then there is no reason for skin colour to be wrong.
sorry not sorry.