Status Updates From The Butterfly King (The Los...

mixed feelings all around

I'm having trouble reconciling Vin's trickery and deception with the potential rewards that it will bring.

Men ruled by fear usually squirrel away one secret corner in their lives, a sacred pleasure where fear cannot reach. I’m guessing Terrance’s pleasure is sex.

--Sweet baby Jesus, I'd say so. Muy caliente.

"I meant Lost Kings have to let something die to become Found Kings again. They have to shed a comfortable burden to become a better version of themselves. Give up living on the sidelines. Give up feeling sorry for themselves. Stop blaming others. The price of power is a new burden. The gateway is often grief.”

Unfortunately, I know something about kinging men who live in their fear. They will never submit to any other power than fear. They’ve already capitulated their dreams, their lives, their futures.

This is the toughest challenge Vin's had so far.
So, so good.

"What do I say? Do I explain that in these elegant hallways, I pretend I’m in a castle at a fancy ball with a man who loves me? That we dance and gaze into each other’s eyes, and this imaginary partner knows I’m a bad person but he loves me anyway?"

This is breaking my heart already.

"I must disarm him with the unending flood of my idiocy."

I hope this works, Vin.

I’ve been saving this to be my last book of the year. Wasn’t easy.

Vin, you're gonna have to do a lot in order to keep this guy from wanting to strangle you lol. Love it.

Men like Terrance who stand so close to their kingship represent a particular challenge.>
Oh, I'm in for it. And this is a younger Vin, which I knew, and makes this even more delish.

Yes, page one, and I've already grinned lol. :D

"The gentlest touch of a butterfly wing could influence a heavy decision."



I'll probably need a lot of butterfly gifs.

Intense. Digesting.

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'Butterfly Tree-it was a slave tradition, to create this beauty nobody could contain. Slaves said they offered it as a gift to their masters, to show how grateful they were for such kind owners. But the real message was to each other. They may have us in netting right now but we were meant to be free.'

'It's a heavy burden, trying to love a world that does not seem to love you back.'

Oh man. This book, like it's prequels ripped me apart and build me back up again. The story and characters took hold of my emotions and made sure I felt every single one available to me.

"Something old and broken is less broken."

Oh my God. All the feels.

No! My heart just broke

Now reaching the stage where part of me is desperate to get to the end and an other part of me wants to either stop or slow down so it doesn't. Wonderful torture.