Shani > Recent Status Updates

The romance in this book is the slowest of slow burns, they barely talk to each other but why am I eating it up?

The plot is also pretty interesting

“May I remind the General to keep his hands to himself?”
lmaooo

“You don’t wonder alone. I am sure you know that. For what it’s worth, what I had with Ikel was true and good. But I think there are many kinds of true, good things.” He looked from the fire to me. Once again, I could hardly abide what I felt when I saw his expression. “I hope this is one for you. It is for me.”

Ugh I just want them to be happy

The plot twist got me good
I was concerned cuz the romance was so slow and boring I was like there's no way I have to put up with this for the rest of this book??
And then the authors finally threw in some flavor

“If you did leave,” he said. “If you did simply walk out the doors and stroll down the mountain, leaving behind no word of where you were going or why, I would come looking for you. I would never stop looking for you. I would find you too."

Darien!!!!

“I wonder what exactly it is about you that causes the king to trust you so much,” she said.
“Probably the very same thing that makes you trust me not at all.”

Love their dynamic

Omg so much happened
Merlin is a messy bitch! I did not expect the love potion
Lancelot and Gawain????!!!!
Vera and Arthur go back and forth btwn boring me and exciting me like the author makes them so interesting for a few pages and then stops like aaaa

Now she's worried about her relationship with Lancelot???
Like girl....you guys do everything together and you are barely seen with Arthur ofc ppl will think u guys r banging

Maybe I re-played ch22 a little too much

“Take these insolent servants to the Room of Dread and Anticipation and thrash them. Do it right this time. I want him whipped until he is dead.”

Don't touch him :(

“So trust me. Don’t take any risks unless you have an absolutely imperative reason. I promise I won’t ever let you be hurt again.”
She heard the smile in Key’s voice as he murmured, “I believe in you.”
Beneath her hand she felt the rhythmic thunder of his heart. As though he were a real living person. As though she held the drums of war in the hollow of her hand.

Ugh this is not gonna end well!

I have a theory and I am like 99% certain I am right because the Emperor that Rae imagines and the current King do not align at all

“Is on the balcony, tending to her idiot sister,” Key murmured back. “You don’t need to tell me where she is. I always know where she is."

ofc he does

There is a musical number in this book lol I am unsure how I feel but so far this whole book has been campy so it makes sense

“It’s hard for me to think of the characters around us as real people. Do you understand? Are you like me?”
Key’s grey eyes went eagerly bright, silver as a magic blade. “I think so.”
Rae grasped his arm. “You walked into the book too?”
“Sorry,” said Key. “What book?”
His face was blank as a page with no story on it yet.
Rae sagged. “Ah. You’re a sociopath. My bad.”

LOL

“Do you lift?”
He tossed a smile gone sly over his bare shoulder. “Knives. Spoons to my mouth. A woman, once.”

Key the man that you are

Quiet as the roar of a distant avalanche, the Last Hope said: “Don’t tempt me.”

Okay his character is now a lot more interesting

“I’m a New York City boy myself.”

LOL I did not expect that hello plot twist!

Getting sick didn’t make Rae virtuous, it disrupted her plans. Now the prime minister was calling her a harlot. Oh no, whatever you do, don’t accuse me of being cool and sexy!

This book is so weirdly funny lmao I can't decide if I like it or not the tone is ??? but the plot is fun

The why does your face change color conversation was so intense I had to replay it so I can absorb all the emotions of the conversation a second time
Cris Dukehart really put her entire everything into that scene it was so good!
I was so caught up in Zylas' anger I was also internally nodding my head to everything he was saying like yea Robin why does ur face change color whenever he touches u!!! Answer!!

Two books I am reading brought up the hungry ghost festival! Spooky

Bodies melt in the summer like cheese in a microwave, and a heat wave is coming next week.

Ugh the imagery

Okay I know Rune prob ends up with Gideon but the author is making Alex too likeable!!!! He's so sweet.....

Attacked, Sears raised his head and blinked. “Milly has no worries. She’s been left John’s house and a disproportionate amount of money.”

No worries? The man she loved just killed himself lol

She gave me a great cow-eyed look, and I was certain she was thinking of that rural tradition of the schoolmaster marrying his eldest female pupil.

yikes...

The reason you can tell me is that—” Sears paused, and Ricky feared that he’d say, I sometimes wish you’d never married too.

I can't tell if they secretly like each other or this is just bro talk

Starting another horror story late at night
I thought this dude was her dad turns out its her kidnapper? Yikes...

"THAT NIGHT I picked up Demon Possession Past and Present and took the quiz again. This time I scored a seven."

how many times are u gonna take this quiz and not realize the truth???