![]() ![]() Except, through investigation into his Illuminator, we learn that he was demoted and disgraced before his death. ![]() This privilege is due to her professor father’s (huh, I thought he was an inventor?) high standing in the Academy before his death. Seventeen year old Eyelet, we learn, attends the prestigious Brethren’s Academy of Scientific Delves and Discoveries, despite being a woman, in a world where girls have no rights. But then, they’re also not the actions of the self-involved teenager she becomes. These aren’t the actions of a child barely off leading strings. She frets about money and confronts a terrifying carney and recalls her mother’s green-blue eyes turning “watery grey”. Did you see how positively delicious he was?”’. She doesn’t read like an eight year old, even a world wise one, when she says, ‘“The elephant, I mean. The world building is inconsistent, as is Eyelet’s characterization.Įight year old Eyelet is precocious and impetuous, despite her secret condition. ![]()
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