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This is so good!!

Oooooh Ione and Elmmmm

Elspeth is finally back! 💔

Odd top five (book edition):

-scrolling on booktok while on the treadmill

-entering flow state with a book and reading for hours without looking up

-the inside illustration with the half covers (DONT COME AFTER ME THEY’RE SO BEAUTIFUL)

-special editions that don’t cost extra money

-owning every book of a never ending series and preordering each book as soon as there is news of it coming out

I really need to stop logging after every ten pages but “Come, Prince. Let’s get drunk” HAD ME. My poor baby Elm wdym he’s gonna be king and choose a wife 💔

PART TWO: to barter

Thoughts on part one—
Elm is my absolute favorite. He says things like “I’m delicate” and “I should be abed, resting my delicate body.” He was kind of a prick in one dark window but I loved him anyway and now that we see his POV I knew I made the right choice. I feel bad about him being left behind though, and it scares me what his role will be in the prophecy.
Others: good no notes!

“Nested like a cuckoo under my Captains bloody nose?”

“In his defense,” Elm said, “it’s a rather large nose.”

I LOST IT I FREAKING LOVE ELM SO MUCHZ

Elm is actually such a diva. I’m in love.

AHHHH IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS BOOK IM SCREAMING we get everyone’s povs so im really happy (ive always loved elm for some reason) and the way that first chapter ended—oh I am so ready

Lowkey kinda bored with these characters and the book. Like, I love Gideon and Blade but the rest of them--Tristan, Evie, Becky, Keely, are just kind of blurring and fading out,

Oh this will all come back to bite her in the butt later—

WHAT THE MURDER PLOT

THAT WAS JUST PART ONE??? HES DEAD

WHAT. The killer can’t be revealed that easily when half of the book is still left…I’m so lost 😭

This is so scary 😭a serial killer is making Pip their next victim??? “Save herself to save herself” her mental health is scaring me too Ravi is trying so hard but he can’t change it

Is someone going to use the resurrection spell on her?????? Cuz what 😭😭😭😭😭

I admire Gideon so much for being hurt and abused and diminished to nothing by witches who also killed his entire family and still understanding that not all of them are evil, and more than that, he’s taking action. He wants to SAVE them all, not just Rune. Not many people would do that. That’s why fictional men are always the hottest 😩

TRUE LOVES CURSE.
I’m dying. He surrendered his life for her, and she went through torture for him. Enemies two seconds ago but now they’re admitting that they’re everything to each other 😭❤️this is awesome

I love the enemies to lovers to enemies every 50 pages! First they’re kissing so he proves to her that she doesn’t repulse him and he really does love her…and then they have guns pointed at each other 😩😩😩

“Gideon had dug the man’s grave himself, right after digging his brother’s.”

I just wrote a song called “After Christmas” and it’s about how I hope I’ll friends that aren’t so fake after Christmas and in 2026 🥴🥴

YES YES YES YES this is perfect!! The tension, the plot, the close proximity…. GIVE ME MORE

THIS is the kind of slow burn tension I needed from the first book.

Wait…that’s such a good theory that H is Cressida, but I feel like if it were true, they wouldn’t have revealed it so early so it CANT be…right?

My poor babies Alex and Gideon 🥺🥺

Skinny dipping?? I wouldn’t have expected THAT

I know she wants Gideon, but shouldn’t the obvious choice be Alex??

I love when 50 pages in the characters have been presented and the premise of the book has been outlined. I’m excited now.

Plot twist.

It’s getting better, but there is still so much we could skip over…