Draco Black and the Prisoner of Nurmengard (The Mirror of Ecidyrue, #6) by starbrigid

Draco Black and the Prisoner of Nurmengard (The Mirror of Ecidyrue, #6) Reviews

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  Roxana Chirilă

  I love this series so much <3
  
  "The Prisoner of Nurmengard" is a wonderful 6th book in the series. It still has humor and adventure, but it's starting to go deeper into the realm of tragedy.
  
  I have so many things to say, I think I'll just say nothing else.
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  Elif

  First of all I would like to sincerely apologise for the person I was when I was reading this fic. I talked about this fic with friends, I have talked about it with family members , I have forwarded links of it to strangers I was meeting for the first time, I did the 4am tumblr deep dive for a crumb of additional content, I have lived I have loved I have bought the ironic novelty tee from the giftshop and now I’m back to the land of living
  
  I know there’s a 7th book currently being written but I will try to force myself to not read it until it’s finished so I can binge it.
  
  I loved LOVED this series. I loved all the characters, I loved what an unreliable narrator and hot mess Draco was, I loved all the heroes and the villains and all of the complex characters that fell in between never thought i'd be mourning Theo Nott but here we are .
  
  I was promised a slow burn with mutual pining and I was NOT disappointed
  
  The reason this was a 4 ⭐️ was that at certain points, the entire plotline of 'Draco the self-deprecating dark wizard' did seem to be repetitive (and the whole dynamic with the chosen one grew to be tiring) but after the big breakup which was much needed and will hopefully stick I'm hoping that Draco will finally get that hug he desperately needs and tone of the story will shift to the better.
  
  
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  Samantha

  Think Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift. Draco is screaming that song at the top of his lungs.
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  Angelika Kinga

  "You suffered, as so many suffer, due to a simple set of twin forces: ill will and poor luck."

  
  I really fucking hope i didn't accidentally go into a series that is not HEA, since this book doesn't make it a positive prospect, quite, at all.
  
  It can be summed up as:
  

  "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

  
  Except everyone is so fucking blind. Someone even lost their eyes somewhere miles deep in their sockets there. The fucking audacity to make me baby-cry like this.
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  Angie R.G.

  Amoooooooo
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  smthinoff

  (also I’d never log fanfic on Goodreads but considering these rewrites of the series are longer than the acc hp books and the fact I’m going through them i think deserves to go to my reading challenge)
  the lore was dense in this one, took some time to get through all of it,,,I think I didn’t like this one as much as the others but let’s see if the deathly hallows rewrite is any worse
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  laith

  COUSIN!
  
  i think you have to be at least a little insane to write something as gloriously complex as this.
  
  my god. i never once knew where the plot was going to turn to next or what we were going to learn about (love me a fic that EDUCATES)(also a little annoying because draco seems to dive into doing things without ever truly thinking things through - but also, really, who can blame him?) and the passages of conversation with the prisoner of nurmengard were just heartaching. draco continues to be plagued with crippling insecurity and self-doubt that continues to be his undoing in a vicious sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. i spent half this fic yelling at my screen in frustration wishing he would trust his friends enough for once to not believe him the monster he thinks he is.
  
  i adored the author pulling from their own culture and language to add that extra flourish of details. there was less focus on the romance aspect which is understandable since there was a lot of other things going on....comparing the events of this book with its jkr counterpart is just surreal, hbp feels as bland as unsalted white bread now - you realize there really was a lot more she could have added to the story. bellatrix has officially cemented herself as a more terrifying villian than voldemort himself.
  
  excited to see how the dantanian + million other plot threads tie up in the end, and how draco plays a part in the iconic golden trio horcrux hunt of deathly hallows. i love this series with all my heart oh my fuck. onto the final book!!!!!!!!!! im going to savor every page.
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  Jazz

  How was this better than the whole of Harry Potter.??Seriously, it had so much more lore, character development, emotion, despair. I love how the whole series is a more adult and realistic take on the whole story. I guess the war and the casualties hit differently when there’s actual cruelty.
  
  The quality of the writing was absolutely superb. The author put so much research in her lore. (There were whole passages about Name origins, Roman myths??) (So many quotes from famous classical books??). The writing flew by like a meadow. (also all the characters had such clear and different ways of speech omg).
  
  I’m so shocked to say it but: This was as good as Babel from R.F. Kuang. This was not Fanfiction, but a 750 page critique on how far one should go for the greater good.
  
  I will print this. I will worship this. I will never be the same again.
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  Juli

  Es una obra de arte, toda la saga es una maldita obra de arte, no puedo esperar para leer el último. Tengo miedo pero NECESITO terminarlo
  
  
  Spoilers
  
  
  Los capítulos de grindelwald son EXCELENTES, Nono lo que disfrute sus charlas, todo ell tema de dantanian es jdnsnfnwnd glorioso, ir viendo como se plantearon cosas en el primer libro q ahora van cerrando es simplemente fascinante
  
  La batalla de nurmengrand fue una locura
  
  Es un fic hermoso que estoy 10099000p0p00000% dispuesta a tomar como canon y fingir demencia. Para mí después del 7mo libro de Harry Potter, pasa esto.
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  Tzila World

  Theo era uno de mis favoritos pero poco a poco se fue desviando y, aunque entiendo su enojo, no puedo decir que mi bebé lo merezca, él lo sabía, sabía en lo que su padre se metía y aún así, decidió su camino.
  Por otro lado, Draco siendo un black, y ademas, hablando con Grindelwald fue una unión que no me esperaba pero que ame en el periodo en que ambos se hicieron compañía.
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  Alexanndra

  es el libro mas largo y sin duda el mas complejo. te destroza y te repara de una forma que no creia posible, es una avalancha de emociones que rara vez me provoca un libro.
  
  INCREÍBLE, solo eso puedo decir
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  星 wen

  4/5 solo porque pienso que mi bebé Theo no merecía ese final tan feo :(
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  Paula Hernandez

  DNF. I might pick it up again, but I doubt it.
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  Milo

  I love this so much it's so lore filled and interesting and probably the most interesting book in the whole series so far imo.
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  Milagros Godoy

  Mi canon 🧡✨
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  Eva Zanfi

  No
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  Day ✨

  this entire series is just insane and i love it
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  Darien1

  La mejor fic de las siete de esta saga. Me arrodillo.
  Theo, Dios, qué buen personaje y lo mucho que me parte el corazón en estas 323,000 palabras. Y boludo, toda la historia de la varita de Draco, los espejos y la vida de Dantanian, una locura. Qué onda. Esto está a otro nivel, lejísimo, de las fics anteriores. Mis felicitaciones al chef.
  ¿Y Grindelwald? Por favor. Obviamente sacando toda la parte de que era un genocida, etc. etc. qué personaje tan nostálgico, tan triste y desgarrador. ¿Por qué no me saca el corazón del pecho y capaz me duele menos? Amé cómo lo presentaron, la personalidad que manejaba, tan sarcástico, tan superado, pero que nunca te olvidas de que es tan peligroso y tiene tanto poder que si no estuviera en Nurmengard puede matar a miles.
  Y bueno, amamos a Draco. Su personaje acá es espectacular. Aunque toma decisiones que son demasiado cuestionables y la mitad de las veces no sabía ni por qué las hacía, todavía lo defiendo a muerte. El pibe es de otro planeta. ¿Ustedes leyeron la escena de LA EXTORSIÓN? Fua. Y SU COLLAR CON LAS INICIALES, es muy fuerte, todo todo todo.
  Bueno, ¿ya leyeron todo eso? Porque sino, tienen que. Es increíble. No se van a arrepentir. Si leyeron hasta la fic anterior y quieren dejar la saga, LES JURO que esta vale la pena.