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“What, after all, is home? …. It is the hole inside your soul that can’t be filled by any other place.”
Bawling my eyes out

i hate how they destroyed my home and where I would’ve lived. I hate thinking about another life where I never had to say goodbye, I hate the ‘refugee’ part about being Palestinian. I just hate it.
“I carry my troubled homeland within me; I hide it like a crime.”

why’s my luck with fantasy so bad in the past couple of weeks??? I don’t like how we have a set of protagonists that we will come back to in the FIFTH book. This one will go on pause 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I like how the stakes are high, but something’s missing and I can’t point out what it is

I might hate this, but tbh I need something that’ll relieve my TOG itch

"إنَّ الحياةَ الحقيقية هي في خَنادقِ الجهاد، فَمن طَلب الموت وَهَبه اللهُ الحياة، إنَّ صوت القصفِ لا يقتلُ الرِّجالَ ولا يُغَيِّر المبادئ، إنَّ كَميَّة القَنابل لَا تُنقِصُ الأَعمار."

يارب احنا وين والمجاهدين وين…

I just realized I have to read another series by the same author before this one, because it’s apparently a sequel
I had no idea lol

This is how it should be done in YA novels!!! Villains who are believable not evil for no reason

So far it’s pretty good

I’m cringing so hard, this is not okay 😭

“Only then did her eyes finally find relief in the dark.”
Stop no way

So the king and queen were killed just like that and then we are talking about making matching bff necklaces? Oh okay lol

the dedication 🥹
“Verily in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest.”

I’m cringing at some lines 😬

She keeps talking about how short she is
for gods sake STOP

WHYS HER MOM SO HORRIBLE???

I like it

Why are we being introduced to hundreds of characters?? 💀

okay yes I can see how this will eventually go down the same pathway as any other romantasy 🤦‍♀️

I know saint silas is supposed to be intimidating and scary, but he’s lowkey so funny 😭😭

I love the vibes so much it reminds me a lot of HP and the half blood prince 🥹

i like how it IS actually gothic

one of my most anticipated reads of 2026, i got the arc <33

I’m not vibing with this, will probably put on pause

so far not impressed tbh

fyi, its 4am

I’m completely and utterly destroyed

“What people forget when they worship their history is that, as beautiful as the idea of a revolution is, all revolutions begin and end with war. All revolution is war. War is what we fight.”