Status Updates From A Legacy of Stars: The Lost...

Ayooo I still really like this book! I get the feeling this isn’t the first of a series, I seem to be missing some context, but not enough to be frustrating. But I’m really into the wife swap thing!

I wasn’t sure about this book cuz I wasn’t a huge fan of the Poison Daughter, but so far I really like it! A bond swap!? Like wife swap?! And Sheila is a great writer. So far I am loving this one! Fingers crossed that doesn’t change lol.

“This was it — the fairy tale she’d been searching for. It didn’t end with a walk down the aisle in a fancy temple; it started with a walk across the beach to the man she could truly be herself with.”

~ ugh, I loved this ending. Teddy got to do what Xander couldn’t and Stella got an empowering love story. YES

Ugh, I’m both nervous and excited for the memory challenge. Cecelia offering Cato forgiveness…the foreboding comment from Cato about retrieving the memories…waiting for my gut punch

Ha! And there is the “only one bed” trope. Let’s go!

Ohhhh boy! I was wondering where Cato was…

Damn that’s a good line “blooming like roses reaching toward the summer sun and down like autumn roots trying to hold fast through winter.”

Ohhhh! Was that a nod to Poison Daughter?! Stella’s epic family storytelling “it has blood and violence and a walled-off city in the middle of a monster-infested forest…”

Stella keeps sliding in with these awesome, observant lines to Teddy: “such a skeptic, but cynicism doesn’t make you mature. It just makes you boring.”

Oh boy, Endros, God of War, is the gamemaster of this year’s gauntlet. I do love when the Gods are involved and you don’t see their twists coming. Total wildcards and I’m so here for it

OH SHIT! This is not what I thought was going to go down 😱😱😱

I’m intrigued by Stella’s opinion of her parents love…it’s something she wants for herself but seems to resent at the same time bc she feels like her love will be compared to theirs and their story is the stuff of legends…stirs up a variety of emotions as a reader, especially after reading about Rain & Cece’s history. You can’t not root for them but do understand Stella’s feelings.

The McKay & Savero family trees 🥹 be still my heart!