she's just so insufferable! Especially her views on humans being just a one dimensional "man they suck and we can't trust em!" and the way she talks down to her little cult allies when they at all question her (complete lack of a) plan. After all the damage her hubris caused the Listeners (literal extinction), she still hasn't learned a damn thing. She's still just doing her own egotistical Venli thing. I really wish Eshonai or Rlain or someone else was our singer main.
Will come back to read your spoilers some day.
Well I'll keep it to the part you're at
I disagree with your assessment that Venli's stance is one-dimensional. Even early on in her first two chapters I was really impressed by the nuance being shown. Venli is right, the humans and Fused DO both suck. She has little reason to trust any of them! But when her followers point out her plan to fuck off from the war and reform the listeners has some issues, I was immediately impressed she admitted to herself that they were right even if outwardly she didn't know what to do about it. It's less egotism because she is consciously checking it and is aware if her past mistakes, but she is torn because of the very real need for self-preservation while having to rebuild a separatist group and her entire culture from scratch. She is pretty different tonally from everyone else at this point of the story and I can see how that could be grating but I loved it.
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