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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???

"...but for the rest of that summer and fall I wore the red lipstick almost every day and when it ran out, in mid-November, I went back to the same drugstore and stole another tube."

yikes

"And the fact that when Ed chewed gum he would swallow it instead of spitting it out . . . for some indefinable reason that revolted me no end."

LOL what??? Maybe Ed is the real demon

"Think of the quiet!” I told Ed. “No neighbors!”

Girl that's bc ur neighbors are duppies

Got the itch to read a horror novel so ofc I am starting this book at 830pm...will I regret it...probably?

“Then ruin me.”

ugh Vanja just listen to him and stop running!!!

The reveal about why Emeric had such a fast engagement is actually insane

"...You hate me, you’re better off without me, so don’t act like this is even a choice!”

Maybe I actually hate the 2nd chance romance trope....(jk I don't)
So much angst like you guys love each other stop this!

I was not mentally prepared for this book to be as angsty as it is....
Where is the fluff when I need it most :(

The Mother Superior looks directly at me, and for the first time, she seems—sad. “You were weeping,” she admits. “And, somehow, I knew … you were alone.”

omggg don't play with me like this :(

He shifts in place, the flush spreading to his cheeks. “I can be upset and still think you deserve nice things.”

too many green flags am I really reading a fantasy romance??