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I am struggling, I’m only a quarter of the way in but I’m having a hard time caring about the characters, honestly, I just want to read Nesta’s parts. I think this might be a me problem, it’s been a while since I read the ACOTAR series. This series is what got me into Romantasy, but I think I might have outgrown this series and SJM’s writing and it might not be for me anymore.

I think this is going to be a top 3 book for this year. The audiobook is fantastic too!

“I also hadn't had a life where happiness came easily. Hence my constant battle to find the beauty in everyday things.”

I am loving the botanical themes in this book.

“Even without using Siren magic on them, trees are, in their own right, magical. They release phytoncides and microbes, which improve immune systems and act like antidepressants.”

“Asher looked between them. ‘So, you're what... witches?’
‘Daughters of the earth, as we were once called." Aunt Jacqueline resumed walking. "But, yes, witches. Men stole that word from us when they persecuted and killed women who held even a modicum of power. Only in recent years have we begun to take back the word, to make it powerful.’

“Animals offered comfort and companionship, two lost pieces that fit together in the great world.
But then Hopkins continued. "These familiars suckle blood from teats upon your person, and act as conduits to the Devil himself"
These witch hunters had taken even the wondrous nature of the friendship between woman and animal and wrenched it into the prurient and vulgar.”

“Witch.
A word cut clearly through the din. A single, simple word, barbed with a need to control any woman who lived her life without a man to keep her in order. Women who learned too much, whose wealth and land were their own, women with tongues that would not still when challenged.”

I don’t know what it is about this series and why I am so obsessed with it.