Rage, Ruin, and Reluctant Redemption

ACOSF Buddy Read Day 1 Chapters 1-8

We open with pain. Not metaphorical, not poetic—raw, unfiltered pain. Nesta was Made in the Cauldron, but she didn’t just survive it. She stole something back. And that fury hasn’t left her.

Velaris glitters, but Nesta chooses grime. She drinks, she spirals, she isolates. Cassian is sent to collect her, and the tension between them crackles louder than the fire she refuses to sit near. Every pop of the logs is a memory. Every step she takes—111 of them—is a reckoning.

This isn’t a redemption arc. Not yet. It’s a descent. And we’re walking it with her.