I’d been waiting for the crunch of tires on gravel since pushing the disconnect button on Ysabeau’s tiny mobile phone—and since then it hadn’t been out of my sight. Yes, Diana.  We’re all aware of and disappointed by your complete dependence on Matthew and your lack of any ability to do anything without him.  You…

Diana goes up to Matthew’s study, and Marthe has already laid out food and lit candles and done all the basic servant-y stuff.  And I can’t believe I haven’t complained about this once already.  Marthe is the only nice female character we see besides Diana.  But it goes further than that: she’s not just nice,…

The next day, Ysabeau takes her riding for exercise, because apparently we’re still stuck on that ‘Diana needs to burn off her excess adrenaline’ shtick.  To make it even better, Diana says that the two scares from yesterday (almost drowning and Dom showing up) used up all her supply.  Yes, she actually thinks that being…

Remember last time, when we ended with Diana’s emo tears of ultimate sadness?  They are magic emo tears of ultimate sadness.  She’s literally crying a river of tears and almost drowns in them.  Seriously, you guys only wish could be as tragically sad and emo as this chick right here.  (Again, what part of this…

So, for the whole rest of the day, she-of-the-every-power-known-to-witchdom, she who is supposed to be ‘smart’ and ‘willful’ and ‘independent,’  she who is the protagonist of the book, what does she do?  She sits inside the castle and mopes about how she can’t date Matthew.  Really.  That’s it.  And then she quite randomly gets some…