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End of Book 1. It’s pretty good and much more accessible than I expected. There’s some elegies that I find funny but I’m not sure if they’re supposed to be - though the one about burning her hair off with a curling iron and having to wear a wig surely is. I liked Dipsas’ relationship advice in 1.8 and Ovid’s reaction, that was pretty funny.

Why are the fairies at an orgy??!! I thought this was a kids’ book??

I cannot with St John. He is so frickin irritating. Possessive boyfriend but not even a boyfriend??? What is up with that??

‘I love you, and know you prefer me. It is not despair of success that keeps me dumb. If I offered my heart, I believe you would accept it. But that heart is already laid on a sacred altar: the fire is arranged round it. It will soon be no more than a sacrifice consumed.’

‘Who in the world cares for you? Who will be injured by what you do?’
Still indomitable was the reply: ‘I care for myself.’

‘Do you doubt me, Jane?’
‘Entirely.’
‘You have no faith in me?’
‘Not a whit.’

🤣🤣🤣

‘I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.’

Shit the bed.

Not as literary as I was expecting; I thought it was going to do something cool stylistically but it hadn’t so far. Thinly veiled allegory for an abusive relationship. But readable. Sitting at 4 stars so far.

‘I saw multitudes in Raihn’s eyes when he looked at me.’

‘I really did try not to notice, or care, that they (his eyes) drank me in the same way he drank in sunshine.’

I KNEW that cigarette guy would come back

I keep thinking about the guy who gave her the cigarettes. Can he come back please so I don’t feel crazy for thinking he’s important

So Vincent won’t turn her because she has a 66% chance of death. But he’ll let her enter a competition with 50+ vampires who all want to kill her. Surely that is worse odds

Enemies to friends to lovers to enemies??? Sign me tf up

Chained together for 80+ pages?! Forced proximity done RIGHT. and now potential fake dating?! I’m obsessed