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I almost give it all up. Scrap the plan. Give in to his fear. I hate seeing him like this, and maybe that’s what love is, not fireworks or grand gestures, but this quiet ache. This undeniable truth that his happiness suddenly matters more than my own.

“It’s reckless, the things I’d do for you. The people I’d kill for you. The way I’d burn down the fucking world, turn it all to ash, to keep you safe.”

Carrson, the complicated tortured soul that you are 🫶🏽

I’ve seen the truth behind the curtain, how power is built on brutality and fear. If I don’t play the devil, someone worse will.

He’s beautiful in the most dangerous, dark way. The kind of beauty that makes you want to taste it even if it might kill you.

I hoped the fire would scorch away my shame. My pain. That all those emotions would float up in the air with the ashes, but they didn’t. I breathed it in, that toxic smoke, and it settled deep in my lungs, in my soul, and it’s been suffocating me every day since.

He pauses, gives me a long look, and asks, “Who hurt you?”

I eat this up every time 👏🏽

For some reason I can’t share any quotes directly from my Kindle to Goodreads which is annoying I’m not sure if it’s because it’s a NetGalley copy 🤷🏽‍♀️

I’m a bit bored tbh

It’s a bit info dumpy but the parts that aren’t world building being thrown at me I’m enjoying 🔮

Daemon has just met Jaenelle who has been at Briarwood? She’s emaciated and I think 12-14 years old at this point. He feels immense relief that he doesn’t desire her sexually 😵‍💫

“He could take some comfort that he didn’t want the child’s body, but the hunger he felt for what lived inside that’s body scared him.”

I am so disturbed 😶

False alarm ‼️ she isn’t his birth mother. My Bad I forgot but in my defence he addressed her as ‘mother’ 🫠

Daemons mother has just stuck her tongue in his mouth 🌚 what is going on in the House of Commons 😩 (If it’s any consolation he’s disgusted)

Saetan is the High lord of Hel and can reach into peoples minds to see their thoughts and memories 💭 Interestinggggg

I don’t think they know that they’re brothers 🙃

Daemon and Lucivar are brothers, they share the same father and they’ve just kissed? Sorry what? I think Daemon is under some kind of spell but ehhh? 🫠

The Eyriens who are a race of warriors compete in the Khaldharon Run which is basically the Blood Rite in ACOSF

“Only a handful of the best Eyrien warriors each year dare try the Khaldharon Run. It’s the absolute test of strength and skill, not a playground for girls who want to flit from place to place.”

I’m also not sure why the author chose the FMC to be a seven year old girl 🤷🏽‍♀️

Daemon is also a sex slave being used against his will…

There’s a character named Prythian and one named Surreal 👀

A High Lord of Hel

Daemon has golden skin and bat like wings 🦇

Okayyyyy

“That’s why I was broken on a Warlord’s spear and became shattered glass that only reflects what might have been.”
I love when I’m reading a book and I’m highlighting sentences on the first page.
I’m intrigued to see the similarity between this and SJM’s work 👀
I didn’t get more than a couple of chapters in last time I tried to read it but I’m hoping to finish the trilogy this time 🙌🏽

Very thought provoking

It’s a Cinderella retelling with ice dragons 🐉

It’s slow so far and I keep putting it down but I’m hoping it picks up

I’m flying through this! It’s an easy read which is just what I need to get me out of a slump

DNF


If I start a book and it has a wholeeee glossary, various descriptions etc that I need to memorise just Tim understand the story the that’s a red flag for me… and this was too info-dumpy, 84 pages in and every other paragraph is an explanation of something instead of just getting on with the story

Halfway through and there isn’t a definitive love interest yet… I’m kind of rooting for Anton 👀

The writing is beautiful ✨

He made her jewellery from the bones of the men that tried to kill her 🥺 If that isn’t the most romantic thing I’ve ever read 😭