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book 2

that ending had me in tears... why does Cassie always manage to make me so sad???

I know😭

I remember when I read that ending I was so shocked! I feel so bad for Ty!

I just saw something I never realized in Lord of Shadows. A TLH reference!!! This scene here:

Bridget had led Emma to a bedroom she seemed to have picked out ahead of time, and Emma soon found out why: There were two height charts scribbled on the plaster, the kind you got by standing someone against a wall and drawing a line just above their head, with the date. One was marked Will Herondale, the other, James Carstairs.

A Carstairs room. Emma hugged her elbows and imagined Jem: his kind voice, his dark eyes. She missed him.

But that wasn’t all; after all, Jem and Will could have done their height charts in any room. In the nightstand drawer, Emma found a cluster of old photographs, most dating from the early 1900s.

Photographs of a group of four boys, at various stages of their lives. They seemed a lively bunch. Two of them—one blond, one dark-haired—were together in almost every photo, their arms slung around each other, both laughing. There was a girl with brown hair who looked a great deal like Tessa, but wasn’t Tessa. And then there was Tessa, looking exactly the same, with a gorgeously handsome man in his late twenties. The famous Will Herondale, Emma guessed. And there was a girl, with dark red hair and brown skin, and a serious look. There was a golden sword in her hands. Emma recognized it instantly, even without the inscription on the blade: I am Cortana, of the same steel and temper as Joyeuse and Durendal.

Cortana. Whoever the girl was in the photograph, she was a Carstairs.

On the back, someone had scrawled what looked like a line from a poem. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

I can't believe I didn't notice this before!!!🤯

oh myyy!! I remember Emma recognizing Cortana but all else I've forgotten or didn't notice the first time. I need to reread these books!!!

Lia wrote: "I just saw something I never realized in Lord of Shadows. A TLH reference!!! This scene here:

Bridget had led Emma to a bedroom she seemed to have picked out ahead of time, and Emma soon found out..."

It's interesting how she hinted at these characters back in Lord of Shadows!

I actually did recognize the Cortana part the first time I read Lord of Shadows. There’s also something that says JB+LH on a window I think, in this book or the next, and I remember googling it like 2 seconds after read it😂

Omg rlly??? I think you're right about it being in the next book! Ahh I wanna see that now!!!

Me too!!

It’s in LoS
There’s another reference when Ty suggests burning Blackthorn Manor and Magnus mutters ‘wouldn’t be the first to think of that’

Oh hahahahaha

hahaha