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She’s trained her whole life to stfu and convince a primal to trust and love her…but FINALLY when the day comes to manipulate Kolis, when her and others’ safety is dependent on it, she can’t manage it? Girl pls, find that veil

Can she go 5 minutes without starting a fight? My god

“Passions are useless, if we pursue them for others. They become obligations. Undesirable.”

Has this author forgotten the plot? Odessa MUST go to the healers in Quentis to find the cure the Torans failed to find for the last 4 years!!…actually never mind!!! Pa still doesn’t trust me :/ Let’s just go back, I’m sure Torahs healers can figure it out!!!

PLOT HOLES. Why is she so concerned about if the infected monster bit him? It doesn’t matter because he didn’t have elixir first 🙄🙄

When is odessa going to stop playing the victim?
…. “I realized I was still a means to an end”… bc these travelers want gold for helping your useless ass? Yeah girl, not everyone’s a rich princess.

Yes, the world makes room for goodness and decency, he thinks: and the task of life is to show goodness to others, not to complain about their failings.

She has lost sight of the brother Ivan has been describing, replacing him with herself, and therefore attributing to herself a greater understanding of his motives than she could possibly possess. Never having, after all, laid eyes on the man, whoever he is

Dimly she wonders now whether she has been thinking somehow about herself, her own circumstances, and she feels her face again growing flushed. It is this, she thinks, her own sense of identification, that has thrown everything into confusion

… a vestige of evolutionary processes superseded by the development of the brain.”

“Nothing will, or even really can, go wrong. The physical anxiety that accompanies chess events – exhibition games, tournaments – does not bear any meaningful relationship to the events themselves, except a chronological one: it arrives beforehand and goes away afterwards. His mind knows this, but his body does not. For this and other reasons, Ivan considers the body a fundamentally primitive object,

He’s actually going to have a table set aside in the new restaurant

Predictions:
Head chef is obviously Iwan
He is going to show up at the Met on her birthday
They’re going to make a book with her paintings

This was a beginning, he thought; a beginning in the middle, something unexpected and

I get it’s his “true name” but why start calling him Khydan 95% into the second book?

“He wasn’t kingfisher anymore. He was Khydan. Undeniably the name fit him.”

What???

Solar plexus

Stop saying solar plexus

A little slow but interesting so far

Lots of talking about action without much actual action

Couldn’t deal with MCs. DNF’d at 60%

God Scarlett is an insufferable twat

Ugh, so slow and repetitive. 28 chapters in and I keep hoping for something to change, but currently I find both Theon and Tessa to be insufferable

regrets were a waste of time. If only was the bend in a troubling road.

“How do I get back to who I was?”
“There’s no going back, Frankie. You have to find a way to go forward, become the new you. Fighting for who you were at twenty-one is a losing game. If that’s what you’ve been trying for, no wonder you’re struggling….”

Oh my god she vacuums Micah up I can’t 😂

Bawling at Lehaba

Honestly is anything going to happen? This is so boring

Honestly I’m kinda bored with this. Over halfway in and really nothing has happened. Had high hopes because I love Emily Henry, but I just can’t finish this one.

Just when I thought I couldn’t love Emily Henry any more 😩 what is it about her writing that always hits home with me?? I can never put her books down

“It’s easy to believe that if you could do it all over, you’d do everything different” …
“Most of the time, when you regret something, you haven’t seen what the thing you regret can lead you to, if you let it….”