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To whoever said on Reddit that it gets better after the council of Elrond, you were absolutely right and thank you very much

Not easyyy to make progress with this book. I watched the movie and was interested the whole time, I thought the book would be easier after that

Took them this long for a kiss….

So….. is anything going to happen between them? Ever?

All they do is talk and it’s not even interesting, it feels like they’re negotiating a possible relationship. Do they have to sign a contract before we even get a kiss?

This is a veeeeery sloooow burn

Just now realising this is the second book in a series…. Why do I always do this? 😬

Braga, Portugal?? It’s so rare for Portugal to be mentioned in books I read, and for Braga (not Lisbon, not Porto) to be mentioned is really surprising. Love it!

I feel like it’s taking forever to get through this book, it takes a long time for anything to happen and I keep losing focus. I’ve started the movies and I’m loving them, more than than I’m enjoying this book so far 😩

It’s taking me forever to get through this book, I’ve started the movies and I’m already on the second (two towers). So far, the movies have proven to be more interesting to me!

The prologue almost took me out with how long it took to get through it, but we’ve made it: in came Bilbo and Gandalf, we’re meeting Frodo and I’m invested

I feel like this is gonna take me a while to read, if y’all have any tips to immerse myself in this, let me knoooow

GUYS

I wanted to read the Lord of the rings series but saw that you should read “the hobbit” first (?)

Does it make more sense to read the hobbit first or not at all? HELP

“You’re not a problem, Misery. You’re a privilege.”

🫶

“My smell. Do I smell like . . . ?”

“Mine.” It’s a rumble in his throat. “You smell like you’re mine, Misery.”

Uhh I'm seated for the start of this slow burn

“Sorry?” The word vibrates through my skin.

“Because.” My knees are buckling, so I lock them. I still feel like I might lose my bearings, so I blindly reach up. Find Lowe’s shoulder. Grasp it for dear life. “I know you don’t like my scent.”

“I fucking love your scent.”

“So the baths did work— Oh.”

You're way too clueless, girl

"You type ‘Google’ in the Google bar to start a new search.”

He opens this mouth. Then snaps it closed."

the author has definitely seen that video-meme of the guy on livestream doing exactly that

"“I thought it was a myth,” Cal whispers. “That our elders used to scare us.”

I can relate, since I grew up fairly sure that if I misbehaved, a Were would crawl up the toilet to eat my ass. "

I'd love a tour of this author's mind and writing process

“What the fuck did you just do?” he grunts.
“She’s a Vampyre!”
“She’s my—” Lowe’s hand jerks up to clutch Max’s jaw. “Apologize to my wife.”

Tucking my hair behind my ear while reading this 🤭

The funny/quirky banter is reminding me a lot of Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer, which I actually like

“I took a bath. Did that not make it better?”
His stare is blank. “Make what better?”
“My scent.”
He swallows visibly. His tone is sharp. “The situation hasn’t improved for me.”

This is so twilight coded

“You,” he says, voice deep, almost too low to hear. “How the fuck do you smell like this?”

Cool down Mr. Edward Cullen

“I feel maybe like you did,” he whispered to her, too low to wake her. “When ye came through the stones. Like the world is still there—but it’s no the world ye had.”

“You’re the world I have,” she murmured, and then her breathing changed, and she took him down with her into safety.

Love them, and it's so weird that they're back at lallybroch

"Mac had found him. A big hand had suddenly reached down and grabbed him, and the next minute he was lifted up, bruised and scraped and bleeding but clutched tight against the Scottish groom’s rough shirt, strong arms holding him as though they’d never let him go."

"He’d heard the rocks talking to themselves on the fells at Helwater. The lake District, his maternal grandparents’ home. In the fog. He hadn’t told anyone that."

Can william time-travel??

So sad that Ian blames himself for them losing the baby, thinking somethings wrong with him. But love how Claire finds a way to explain scientific facts to him about blood types and pregnancy, while thinking of Faith and how they lost her :(

Are William’s parts quite boring or is it just me?

"Then I grew older still, and discovered that, after all, it was true. I am the son of a great man."

Oh fergus, this is too sweet 🫶

"They're girls," she replied briefly. "They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance."

Sad

"Just ... talking to myself."
The elderly man nodded understandingly. "Aye, aye. Nay bother, then. It's when ye start getting answers ye should worry."

Loved this reply

“Nay wonder ye’re sae fond of her, Uncle. She must be a rare comfort to ye.”
“Well,” Jamie said, his eyes fixed on his work, ‘she keeps takin’me in—so I suppose she must be home.”