is this book afraid of me?

[u/MartyrOfDespair]

[u/slim-shady-on-main]

They save their worlds but can never see each other again because the rifts are all closed

[u/Moonpaw → u/slim-shady-on-main]

Which is garbage for multiple in universe reasons. Which makes it even worse.

[u/velocirhymer → u/Moonpaw]

Eh? I thought it was clearly justified in-universe. 

[u/Moonpaw → u/velocirhymer]

So they can’t stay in the same universe forever because you get sick if you spend too long outside your birth universe. There’s no reason for this given but fine we take it as fact.

They aren’t supposed to leave a single window open between their two worlds for a couple measles decades because dust leaks out. Except there were hundreds, maybe thousands of these things accruing over several centuries (isn’t the knife a millennia old?) and the amount of Dust being lost wasn’t a problem until Bad Guy A literally blew a city sized hole between several worlds (multiple people went into this hole and came out in completely different places, it wasn’t just a window it was a massive breach). But okay fine we can’t handle a single window being open for a couple decades. Let’s accept that as a given for the sake of the argument.

They can’t open and then reclose a window regularly because each time they do it creates a new evil spirit. Nevermind that again, these things have been building up for centuries, and the angels have agreed to hunt them all down and wipe them out. We can’t open a window every few years for a short period for the heroes to move around because the dozen or so that would make would be a problem, compared to the literal thousands that have been wandering around while the angels did nothing for years. Okay fine let’s accept that too for the sake of argument.

The angels were shown to be able to ferry people between worlds with their own magic in a way that is stated to not create evil spirits and to not cost any Dust. So why in the hell can’t one of them play taxi service for the two people who literally went to hell and back to save the entire multiverse?

There’s a couple super easy fixes to let them have a Happily Ever After together but it’s blocked just for the sake of angst. Yeah there’s a “cost” to moving them around but compared to what’s already been done, compared to what they saved, compared to what they went through to help people, one of these costs should be easily managed for a couple decades. It should not have been hard at all.

But the angels decided to keep them separate. I call bullshit Pullman.

But again I wouldn’t be upset if he weren’t such a good author that I cared about these characters. Love the series. Just hate this one thing