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The price of love was loss.
We all paid it eventually.

"My murmured words don't seem to surprise her. I doubt little would."
Now, I am not a published author, but I'm certain you meant "I doubt MUCH would." Or "I THINK little would."

"Easy, Azer. Don't hurt your foot with with such a blatant lie."
...what?? Why would lying hurt her foot?? 😵‍💫

"At the end of a blade, I would love you. Until it pierced my throat, I would say 'yes' to you."
Are we for real right now 🤦‍♀️

"The king sounds as though a shrug is stuck in his throat."
That's... not how shrugs work.

Oop! I dared to hope there for a second. But he's back from the dead. Groundbreaking.

"I like you two like this," she says softly.
"Like what? Drunk bastards off our asses?"

...what is she even trying to say here? Two bastards drunk off their asses or... This is like reading grade 6 school essays.

"I'm quiet until a soft question surprises my lips."

"It's terrifyingly exhilarating, this something that finds such strength in the ever-changing".
...WHAT???

"He says I'm looking at him like a promise I can't keep. This confuses me."
Yeah, it confuses me, too.

So the plot twist will be that Paedyn is Kitt's sister, and what a relief, they can rule together but can't get married, and Kai is going to be horrified until it turns out he is not their sibling at all because he has a different father. The same one as Adena's boyfriend.

...I honestly better not have it figured out 1/5 into this book.

Trials. Again. Really.
...ran out of ideas, did we?

"Oh, but you are my undoing. My deliverance. My downfall disguised as a deity." Are we fucking serious right now

"The sound of her laugh is healing, capable of a man forgetting his own name, let alone his pain."
...que?? I'm sure you mean "capable of CAUSING a man to forget his own name, let alone his pain. And English is my second language.

The cretins are having another "romantic" moment in a lake during a thunder-and-lightning storm.

"Her mouth is crushed against mine, and it's her I'll breathe in for the last time."
No, it's the town's excrement you're breathing in. And ingesting.

They are kissing in the sewer and all I can think of is that the sewage is up to their necks, lapping at their faces, and they are just kissing it off each other's skin. Literal pee and poop coating their bodies, their faces - and they are kissing. That's Lauren's idea of a romantic moment. Yup.

Not those damn sticky buns again.

"But today I am no one. Today, I simply get to be with who should have been."

I really REALLY do not want to be a hater. But I'm on PAGE FUCKING ONE, barely the fifth line in this book, and already she hits me with: "Stolen bliss is little more than smothered chaos." WHAT DOES THIS MEAN????

"My heart skips a few several beats..."

....and a single page later, she wants to stuff him with her sentiment until he's sick on it. Whatever the fuck that means.

I actually found one I like: "I kiss him like it's the end of a fairy tale."

"I'm not sure what it is about her that has me suddenly spewing prose like a poet..."
Poets spew poetry, not prose, genius.

It was nice while it lasted.
"I had been so focused on Hera's fate that the hushed spilling of my heart has yet to cross my mind."

There's been a few pages now without any idiocy... Dare I hope...?

Since Adena only eats sticky buns, I better be reading about how her teeth are falling out soon. I don't think they have dentists in the slums either, and lord knows they don't brush their teeth and wash only with a damp cloth. And not very thoroughly, either.

Why is Adena saying "attempted robbery" like she didn't actually steal?

Now the sun is "freckling her nose with warmth."

I GET IT, HE HAS A SCAR ON HIS LIP! I'm on page 53 and this is the seventh time it's mentioned.