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But it did feel like waiting for the shoe to drop and it never dropping w the dad conclusion. So much build up to be resolved in 2 pages. And the holding her at gunpoint… even he was surprised she forgave him so quickly. Seeing her in control was different, she literally walked him like a dog. My FAV part was AJ🤗 was not expecting a throuple but loved him and his surprise POV. Also loved the crossovers w OGs

Idk what I was expecting with Tyler being this big underground gambling bookie but he’s such a bratt so down bad it caught me off guard LOLL. I liked her edgy vibe and that their age gap wasn’t made a big deal

I’m ngl I had a hard time not anticipating moments since I watched the movie first. I’m biased bc the movie does not compare, so many things left out. It’s like they used the book for inspo and it’s not really an adaptation. But I did enjoy the back and forth btwn past and present. They’re cutie. Him w his holding hands only w her. And regular life=vacay w the right person. And being each others home🤗

I really liked the illustrations embedded throughout the book giving it a heightened whimsy feeling! Every time Carden talks about his brother’s abuse it just makes me cringe and then now this book with the details of Nicasia and Locke cheating ughhhh but I loved the pic of Cardan choking him.
The repeating changing story was interesting. And I’m a slut for cardens one linersss
AS LONG AS UR BEGGING😫

This was a cutie fic. I liked how everyone got their HEA, Pansy w Longbottom and Theo w Charlie. I was not expecting Theo and Luna having a child from their threesome w Charlie LOL. The moment when Hermione realizes she pregnant bc the scar is gone is so🥹 love daddy Draco sm. And I love how Albus and Scorpius are fated in every fic😭

Not one but two thrones
Do you like it?

If you joke about this… what you’ll kill me?

You must not lie about this. I am difficult to love
You love me bc I’m funny and cunning? You didn’t mention my handsomeness
I knew little else but I always knew you

Stop it them in the human world was so wholesomeeee and cutie

Ughhhh not him seeking validation from his court… he gets it and then is turned into a serpent 😟 she’s gotta save himmmm

Let me be the queen of monsters PAINNN🥀❤️‍🩹

She had to be willing to let him go to get him back. To truly love him and set him free.

Cardans lines 😫😫

Unlike locke, I never thought love was a game

To traitors, I offer my queen‘s hospitality… Of knives

By you I AM forever undone. My heart is urs

Ughhh he himself went to save her😫😫 w the roach
Nature heals her 👑
GET UR HANDS OFF MY WIFEEE the rightful queen of Elfhame 🤪
You don’t get my trick? I thought you’d be proud I was able to trick you! You could’ve come back anytime you wanted 😫😫😫 I WANT U HERE BY MY SIDE AS MY QUEENNNN

“he fought hard to keep you. Half my night never made it out.” 😫😫😫😫😫
UGHHHH HE HAD THE PALACE, LITERALLY FIGHTING BACK, CLAWING AT THE WALLS WITH VINES AND SUFFOCATING THEM IM SCREAMING

SCREAMINGGGG DIDN’T U GET MY LETTERSS?!?! UGHHHH

“i began to wonder if you’d misplaced your ambition in the mortal world”

“Jude, you can’t really think I don’t know it’s you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh.”

😭😭😭😫😫😫😫HIS QUEEN HAS RETUNED

“Jude, don’t-“ UGHHH AND THEN ITS RUINED

Finished ch6, Jude is pretending to be Taryn to cover for her killing Locke in front of the court. And CARDANS TAIL TWITCHES when she speaks😫😫 I’m convinced he knows it’s her obvi and his tail is reacting to herrrr

And him saying “As you wish. Then I suppose I will have to examine you alone in my chambers.”🤪🤪

Eating this UPPP. I just love when a man is so DOWN BAD. They’re basically forced to marry and she’s finally starting to fall for his obsessive, controlling, protective, criminal self🤪
I liked the “mates” feeling of them being paired together because “the magic knows”.
I love that everyone a lil slutty 😏

Wow and the letters from her dad hurtled a bit ngl. I wish we would’ve gotten her opening up to him about it all but I guess it was her moment.

I guess it leaves if she forgave him up to interpretation. I’d say she might have. She wouldn’t condone cheating but I think she’d try to understand.

I was waitingggg for the shoes to drop, of course the ex wants him back after SHE cheated…
Naur ma’am. Loved his love declaration in the rain. Wanting to live everyday doing everything together ughh😫 watching her sleep was overwhelmingggg. And then the proposal 🤗lowkey caught me off guard, wasn’t expecting it

Ughhh loveee. This book lowkey had so many good one liners! I love a grumpy sarcastic sassy man😫 and loved it even more that he was so down bad for her from the start. The “Why do you think January?” Ugh the way he said her name in screaming. Overall cutie story with swapping genres. I liked that they both had their own shit, but the miscommunication pisses me off.

I finished and I’m ngl I wasn’t fully invested until like halfway through. This one had a slow buildup. But the ending was so good. Back to back action. I wish we had more BANTER PLS😫 I know he cares for her more than he’d likeeeee
Exiling her? Too farrrrr???? I truly hope he has some anterior motives here.
But it was very clear he could not be himself and rule under the obedience oath…

I know I asked for the WICKED king but fuckkkk

“I exile, Jude Duarte to the mortal world. Until and unless she’s pardoned by the crown. Let her not step 1 foot in Faerie or forfeit her life”
“You can’t do that”
“Of course I can”
“But I am the queen of Faerie”
Then everyone around me begins to laugh and Cardan laughs with them
“Deny it then. Deny me”
He cannot so he does not

HE SLIDES MY RUBY RING OFF HIS FINGER and reads his vows


IM SCREAMING

I WANTED TO SHOW YOU THAT YOU COULD TRUST ME, THAT YOU DIDN’T NEED TO GIVE ME ORDERS FOR ME TO DO THINGS.

MARRY ME. BECOME THE QUEEN OF ELFHAME.

Cardan is acting a fool in front of the court

“Cardan you must not do this. I order you to pull yourself together”

“Yes, my sweet villain, my darling God, I will be as sober as a stone carving just as soon as I can.”

AND HE KISSES HER IN FRONT OF EVERYONE
BUT WAIT HES NOT DRUNK HES BEEN POISONED🫢😳

THATS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUTTT

"I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone-truly gone beneath the waves—I hated myself as I never have before."

Cardan pulls her close into bed after she tells him she has been sent to kill him…
“Better they think you are important to me than to believe what they do to you is without consequences.”
Cmon wicked kingggg you are not WICKED ENOUGHHHH I NEED MOREEE😫😫😫😫

Balekin: Kiss me. Now kiss me as though I were Cardan. 😱🤭🤭🫣SCREAMINGGGG

Ughhh and the way she keeps reminding herself
Kiss me. Kiss me until I am sick of it. 😫😫
And his yearning looks 😫😫

CH15 IM SCREAMINGGG finally some action!Shits hitting the fan with the sea queen wanting Nicasia to marry Cardan. Jude suggests he seduce her and he says How? Like this…🤭🙂‍↕️

Him:I want to tell u so many lies

Her:I hate u and the last thing in my head: that I like him better than I’ve ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst

This ends up being and apology Taryn is practicing in the mirror to share with Jude. And honesy don’t share it gurl bc it’s not gonna help. It was a 2 hour audio of her excuses. Great writing but I just don’t like her. Sorry not sorry. Cardan in the other hand🤗
"You're awful." He said it as though he was delighted. "And the worst part is that you believe otherwise." Cardan isn’t wrong…

Sometimes the difference between a love story and a horror story is where the ending comes...

OUCHH

If this is supposed to make me like Taryn it’s not working

How it started: “He'd done the worst thing he could've imagined, and maybe it turned him into a monster-but he was my monster. I knew I'd rather be tortured by his demons than live a life without him. My soul needed him. We were the perfect balance, he and I!”
A quote from her book, I loved how she manifested this for herselfffffff 🤪

When he lets her go because he loves her. And she’s SEARCHING FOR A MAN THAT CAN’T be found😫😫 wdym Jude wasn’t keeping tabs on herrrr. Him about to fling himself off the building until he sees her book😭 glad they had their happpy endingggg🤗