PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm

I love Hannelore POVs!

Gretia was a surprise for the epilogue. Really hammered home that if Ferd falls to save her, everyone is screwed

I guess the people who already called for Eglantine to become Zent, after Rozemyne's accidental graduation blessing, must feel very vindicated right now. And even if they somehow learn it was Rozemyne, not the gods who made that blessing... as the divine avatar, it'd still be kind of from the gods in their eyes anyway.

I am quite surprised to read that Lestilaut is going to marry an Archnoble. I assumed that for someone from a greater duchy - and the successor to the Aub in particular - it'd pretty much par for the course to marry another archduke candidate, at least as their first wife/husband. Then again Lestilaut needs a specific kind of woman, to keep his artistic outbursts under some kind of control, so maybe his parents were afraid, a non-dunkelfelgerian woman might lack the forcefulness and fortitude to keep their son in check. ^^

I loved that Hannelore PoV, can we get the entire Story from her perspective as well? I feel like that'd be an awesome read. Ironic that while she beats herself up over bad timing she is just at the right place and time to hear a part of the story no one else had, a part which might allow her to deduce some of the backroom deals that went down.