Kelli's Reviews > Wind

This series gives me so much anxiety.

It reminds me how authoritarianism just keeps repeating itself and regurgitating the same bad ideas—and because of that, communities have to remain ever-vigilant to stamp it out.

It makes me sad, too.

So much of what happens in these books parallels real life.

Frostpaw keeps trying to tell the truth about a murderous coup and she just keeps getting drowned out my misinformation and bad faith actors. Sunbeam has an intolerant family member whose hatred has essentially lead to an ultra-nationalist, anti-immigrant strain of thought to infect the clans.

Somehow, Nightheart is the most normal?

He just has some very standard issues with authority and his family’s legacy—but he’s working through them. He’s leveled out.

Anyway.

The clans are on the cusp of war. What else is new?

If anything, I do think this series demonstrates just how easily it is to go from having a few misgivings about someone or a group of someones to sliding headfirst into fascism. It took less than a moon to start talking about rooting out and killing traitors. These hateful beliefs can catch fast if not stamped out quickly.

Anyway, anyway.

Guess we’ll see how this is all resolved in the next book~