I would rather reread CoT (which, admittedly, I don't really mind) ten times in a row than read that garbage again.

It did so many things wrong:
- Writing style was way off
- Almost no descriptive writing in the scene, just raw explanation
- More contrived than just about any other text I can think of
- Made up completely new rules, like using the TP to mind control birds (there has never been anything remotely hinting at this before)
- Totally random decisions were made by the POV character without any given reason (even just a "she felt like doing XYZ"
- Absolutely zero foreshadowing for the event
- No way for readers to conceivably believe she could engineer her own survival

The pathetic twists at the end of Hollywood spy thrillers are still never this bad.

The only thing which kept me from putting the book down entirely at that point was the fact that it was made clear that Graendal was lucky, and that she knew this. But that's a drop in a desert.

If the next chapter had read like that one at all, I probably would have put the book down at that point, or at least skipped ahead to where the writing seemed to at least be attuned to some level of reality.