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i'm struggling to stay engaged with this one and it's making me feel a tad bit nerviosa...

i'm nothing but a puddle of molten magma every time we get a glimpse of azriel's quiet devotion

feyre, we get it...you're a very charitable woman. basically mother teresa atp. can we move on now?

this has been a riveting 5-star read for me all the way through, and now, in the eleventh hour, when we've already spent 61 blissful chapters together, jensen wants to ruin the entire book by making the most pivotal scene one that waters down the entire plot bc it's so unrealistic and incongruent with the characters' natures and far too simple and convenient?!?!? where's ashton kutcher? who's punking me???

we're officially in chokehold territory, i've hardly been able to peel my eyes from this book

aren gives me pisces moon energy..and perhaps sagittarius sun, leo or capricorn rising

turns out i'm also a traitor queen for betraying the book i'm currently reading to start this one instead

why does my brain devolve into mush whenever i try to review a book by one of my all-time favorite authors? is there a diagnosis for this?

what sort of vile, depraved monster learns of a sacred unicorn frolicking in an enchanted forest and thinks "i must slaughter it at once and hang its horn from my wall"? 😡 off with his head!!!

Louis said, “Do not think of me as your enemy, Highness.”

She gave him her most brilliant smile. “Do not worry, Monseigneur. I shall not think of you at all."

get 'em anne!! 🗣️🔥👏

anne's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and you best believe she's going to wield that milkshake like the weapon it is

I will be inconsolable if any unicorns are harmed in the telling of this tale 😭🦄💗

"You have survived too many shadows to deny yourself the light of hope.”

my soul can't bear to think about how many horses might have been maimed (or worse) during these carriage explosions 😩 make it stop neoww!

Someone call Nana from The Bridge Kingdom bc I just know she'd set this man straight with his rotten, sour tooth given her [completely valid] obsession with dental hygiene and her feral mouth:

"One of his yellow teeth was rotting at the root. If it wasn’t giving him something to complain about, it would soon. In the meantime, the soul-curdling stink of it...was a test to my stomach’s fortitude."

i won't know peace until i get closure on that cursed letter

"You came to all those realizations while you were taking a shit?”

"It’s when I do my best thinking." 😭

lara pours up poison like it's fruit punch...ik a cup hates to see her coming

Oh Nana how I love you so 😭 "Jor, you keep that boy safe or I’ll cut your balls off and feed them to my snakes.”

Nana is a real one!! Game recognizes game

Lara is my kinda gal. While her newly minted husband tenderly dresses her wound, she uses the proximity to study his body for the express purpose of calculating how best to strike him down in a fight.

I love how Lara is constantly naked

alas, an mmc who isn't just a stoic, brooding, grey cloud of a man. aren seems playful and unexpectedly lighthearted. i like their dynamic so far.

"Maybe Una isn’t the loving All-Goddess everyone thinks she is.” Thance nodded, but his eyes, so blue she could see the coming of winter, still gleamed. “Or maybe love is fierce. When those we care for are in danger—maybe love has teeth.”

So far I'm intrigued. On a separate note, it's just hit me: is it even a fantasy novel if the heroine isn't throwing up incessantly and bleeding profusely? Luckily our fmc Reya fits the bill.

having just read quicksilver by callie hart, i'm feeling a bit of deja vu with the protagonist's narrative and the world building here: a thieving, orphaned fmc with a knack for blacksmithing caught in the midst of a critical heist in 'silver city', where magic is outlawed by a tyrannical monarch