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‘At first she thought she only needed the opium for the grief. She thought she would smoke it for the relief, until the memories of Speer and Altan dulled in to a faint ache, until she could function without the suffocating guilt of what she’d done.’ (Pg. 15)

‘Canton meant poverty, insignificance, and ignorance. Canton meant the plague. Canton meant no more books. London meant, someday, Oxford.’ (Pg. 43)

‘He was of an age when the language had made a permanent impression on his mind. But he had to try, really try, to make sure that he did not stop dreaming in his native tongue.’ (Pg. 30)

‘But Robin had always attributed this to some accidental arrangement of nature that ascribed him features that could have belonged anywhere on the spectrum of either race, white or yellow.’ (Pg. 32)

Just read the first ‘spicy’ scene between Adeline and Zane.

I knew this was going to be dubcon/cnc territory since this is a dark romance, but UGH.

Zane thinks so high and mighty of himself - takes his career in stride - because he’s putting an end to countless organisations responsible for the assault on women and children, but he’s just as bad as them and it takes away any appeal of his character tbh