In for a long wait

I finished reading Blackveil. I get the feeling that most everyone who's read it (I peeked at a forums) would sympathize greatly with me were I to throw it into a wall and storm off to cry. Another four years of waiting to find out what happens next. I have no idea what to read next. What do you read next? This book was much darker. I kinda don't recommend reading it until book 5 is out. I feel itchy and antsy. But considering book 1 came out in 1998 and we're only on book 4 it's going to be a while before book 5 is out.

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I almost get the feeling that most of book 4 will come out as a "dream" in book 5 and won't have actually happened due to the smashing of the mirror mask. I mean, when the telescope broke in book 3 the rest of the visions of the future didn't come to be. The poking under the eye, and the balcony scene. Remember, she'd seen herself being poked under her eye and her and Zachery talking on the balcony. Later, she was almost poked, and then they were on the balcony but didn't say what she'd seen them say. But before the telescope broke everything she saw came to pass.

I hate Estora. I hadn't thought a whole lot about things from Zachery's perspective, I just felt shocked and sorrowful. Then on the discussion board I saw someone calling it rape and I guess it actually was more or less. He doesn't seem to mind too much, about any of it! I had expected him to wake up (for anyone who trudges through this who hasn't read the book, he had been shot with an arrow and then kept drugged to keep him unconscious so he could heal and then in the midst of all this was given something to make him "responsive") and there'd be hell to pay from everyone. I expected him to come out with the truth of what had happened and everyone would know and the people involved would pay, probably with their lives. I didn't expect him to quietly send everyone away and pretend to be nice to Estora for the sake of the public. But she did prove herself to be unworthy of being queen. But it makes sense in a way, the whole thing, it was a way to get Estora pregnant without making it seem like Zachery's cheating on Karigan. He thought he was with Karigan the whole time due to the drugs he was given and his already feverish state from fighting the poison that was on the tip of the arrow, and Estora knew this and didn't care that she was taking advantage of him. I had always kinda hoped Estora and Amberhill would go off together.

Spane was all of a sudden. I think he might have been mentioned briefly in book 3 and possibly book 2. Now suddenly he has a history and a story of his own and it's as if it's always been this way.

Hate the cliffhanger. Of course she doesn't die. ...right?

Mornhaven's return was sudden and kinda pointless. The suddenness of the mask was sudden and pointless too. Just suddenly, bam, it's there. Why would the mask appear to her like that, why then, and why? Who is this "trickster", is it another god? Why did she get the mask? Why would Mornhaven know of it and why would he suddenly want her to give it to him moments after she so conveniently found it?

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