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"My whole life, I've never loved anyone like I love you," I whispered. "How can you expect me to cast you back to the water when I've only just found you?"
He sighed and looked despairingly up at me through the bars. "So says every man who has ever hooked a fish."

My heart 😭💔 I'm definitely in a crying mood 😭

I'd gotten so used to being treated like I couldn't feel pain; I was a machine meant to labor until the gears failed and I became just another punchline to a white man's joke. But I was one of Río's seashells in his hands - treasured, precious, apt to shatter if pressured too hard.

Stop this is so beautiful 😭 Tenderness usually leaves me cold but IT WORKS HERE 😭❤️

"I do not understand humans, but I think I'm beginning to understand you."
"You are?"
"You heard the whistle, and so you came to soothe my ears with music."
I cleared my throat and pulled my cap lower over my eyes. "So?"
He tilted his head thoughtfully and, in English, said, "So, your name suits you too, Boy Named Kind."

...I'm in love with these two 🫠 😭❤️

El tritón no longer faced us, exposing a set of diagonal stripes across his back, ribbed and red where the net had held him. He was curled tightly into the corner now, with one webbed hand wrapped around his bruised arm and the other fisted in his hair.
[...] Pain looks the same in merpeople as it does in humans.

🥺 a surefire way to assault my emotions 🥺

Istg I'm excited to finally lock in and read this because the fact that I haven't been able to engage my brain with anything this entire week is killing me 😩 Forty pages in four days. Atrocious 😭
But the weekend is coming, so let's finally meet Benigno and his merman properly ❤️

I could NOT put this down, damn... I have to sleep on this one 🫪
I'm gonna regret this in the five and half hours my alarms is supposed to start screaming lol but sacrifices must be made 🫡

I hate him for this. I hate that my mother is keeping me in the closet with a hand around my throat, when my father - one of the most disgusting, violent, depraved men on the planet - accepts me for who I am in thirty seconds flat.
I hate that being a boy means I'm proving everyone right about how terrible I am. I hate that being a man means I'm a man like him.

I'll need a good scrub down after this 💀

Sometimes I lie in bed, staring at the ceiling, and ask - am I actually autistic, or did my parents never teach me to be a person? Did Dad ruin me so early, so totally, that my brain failed to develop properly? Checking the lock on my bedroom door five times isn't a symptom. Neither is wanting to hurt people, and neither is whatever made Alyssa call me a heartless psychopath last year.

Unapologetic punches

With Morgan's father being a serial killer, I didn't expect to loathe his mother on this level 💀🫪 What a narcissistic waste of oxygen, this lovely lady.

Trueblood went on talking. "It also means what happened is mine to protect. You have a door inside you that read Arcodolori. I stand in front of it now. I forgive you everything that happened inside and if anyone else wants to go in there and judge, they have to come through me first."
Fen cried hard. A short but violent storm that left a damp patch on the kepten's shirt.

😭😭

Their hands touched, closing around the bit of silver for a breath in. A breath out.
Fen looked away, biting his lip. "Did you look for me while I was gone?"
Trueblood nodded. "I didn't like not being able to find you."

😩😩 nfhcsdg sorry to everyone here, I'm being very annoying about this book, and I have zero regrets ❤️

A story asks for little. Really all it wants and needs is a listener.
Fen's tale is his to tell, and he has his reasons for not telling. Among them is a lack of sympathetic ears.
[...]This is but a fragment of Fen's story, legantos. If he can live it, we can hear it.
We can listen to learn it. Learn it to tell it. Tell it to teach it.

😭😭 Sobfest number 2, coming right in 😭

What the fuck was he crying about anyway? He never cried. After what he'd been through, nothing was worth his tears. No trial or tragedy could make Fen il-Kheir break down. Nobody fucked with his autonomy or his agency and no one made him do anything he didn't want to.
No one except Pelippé Trueblood.

😩🫠 oh this is gonna be delicious 🤌🤌

If the needle of Raj's compass turned in all directions, Lejo's only pointed to right and wrong. He led his brothers away from trouble not worth their time, guiding them toward trouble they could fix.
[...]His needle had a keen edge for stray animals. Kepten True drew a firm line against pets on the ship, so Lejo was always bereft when they set sail.

Precious baby, I love Lejo 😭😭

"Don't do that."
Daniel looked up. "Do what?"
"Laugh at yourself like it's somehow your job to lighten the mood."

😭😭 Yang speaking facts that slap 😭 That man is so damn considerate AND competent, I'm swooning ❤️

This impulsive trip to China was propelled by his need to run away from his disastrous life coupled with the pull he had long felt for his dad's country, but being here on Flower Street with Yang made him want more. He wanted to see more, experience more in a way only a local could, not to prove anyone wrong, but for himself.

I'm loving the hell out of this - raise a glass, a romance!! ❤️❤️

...u-oh, I actually care about the characters...in a horror 😬 If something happens to poor Aaron ISTG-😭🔪

The headlines said it was the hottest Britain had ever been, that it was probably going to hit forty degrees in the next few days.

👁️👄👁️ Something tells me this is going to be immersive xD Did I pick this up at the best or the worst time 💀

I'm trying very hard to be sympathetic towards Georgie the FMC, her anxiety is relatable, but so far she fucks up everything, gets others in danger constantly, and when called out she's angry and defensive. Girlie, do you need to actually get someone killed before you get a grip? I need some great character arc here 🙈

Adam and Oliver, though, such a lovely pair 🥹😍😳 I'm here for them!

Can someone who's read this please explain to me, how come there is a harbour with ocean water around Winged City? City that literally floats in the sky on a crater? My brain isn't braining rn so I might be totally dumb and without imagination 🙈

"Polárka", "Hedvábný Okres"...well damn, I didn't expect to encounter Czech language in a random fantasy book by a non-Czech author 🫪 What a wild choice, of all the languages available 😂 I respect that 🫡

It's almost painful, how relatable Alis is, part of my soul bleeds for him 💔 Which is why I need Jordan to fuck right off. I understand why Alis can't ignore his toxic ex-bestie right now, so I'm doing it for him. Fuck. Off. 💀

...this got real unsettling real fast. No fun to be seen here anymore 🥲 this might hit a bit close 🙈
BR with Evie ❤️ The author recommended an emotional support human so there she is (sorry girl) 👀

This is so hard to put down so it annoyed me a little when life decided to be a petty asshole and I had to do just that, but I'm back and LOCKED IN 🫠😩🤌🤌
It's like watching Avengers Endgame for the first time again 😭❤️

You don't even understand how EXCITED I am about this arc guys, the final book in my most beloved urban fantasy universe (22 books!!!) IS HERE and I'm not ready to say goodbye but also I'm sooo back with all my beloved characters 😭😭😭❤️❤️

Sorry I need to go cry myself to sleep see you later 💔😭

This book is giving all the melancholic, gothic vibes I could want but I've been at it for the last four days 😭 And it's absolutely not the book's fault, guess my focus is seriously lacking when I come home from work (don't we all know it) 😩
Gotta lock in during the weekend cause the story deserves it 😤

It's right then that I realise: There's no worse feeling than to yell and yell and feel like no one can hear you.
[...] Actually, that's wrong. The worst feeling is that sneaking suspicion that people can hear you, loud and clear, and they still don't care enough to answer.

💔💔

"Let me be as clear as I've ever been. Okay? Once you're eighteen and paying bills, you can make whatever decisions you'd like. But for now, this is our house; our stuff - our rules. You own none of this, you hear me? You don't have rights; you have privileges, and we can take them away at any time."

Let me just put this book down for a sec so I can fucking scream into my pillow in rage 🙈

🦊🦊🦊 I'm craving fox shifters and this provides all the adorable fox cuddles I need 😭🦊
But also, the worldbuilding is nonexistent so far. PLEASE, does any of you amazing readers know of at least one good fox shifter book? 🥺 Otherwise I'll need to go dig through my AFTG fics again 🫩😂