Kelly Goodwin > Recent Status Updates

“There was nothing left of me when I took out all the parts that belonged to her.”

😭😭😭

What am I reading? 😂🙈

Love that Violet’s friends are clocking her and Xaeden’s relationship with the exact critiques Yarros got about it in Iron Flame.

I see what you did there ma’am.

“In a different life, in a fair one, I would’ve kept you until my eternal soul withered away to dust”

😭😭😭

“It was maddening, the casual intimacy of her dishevelment.”

Ugh this is pure poetry 😍

I’m really over the repeated description of people’s eyes “turning into crescents”.

WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!

“Being ruined by Rhordyn would be better than never drinking the sips of his affection again.”

😭🥵😩

“Survival’s funny. Some wear it like a whisper, others like a scream. Mine’s a scorched skeleton of flame-forged rage that keeps me upright.”

😮

“You and I were never enemies, Kitt. Not exactly.”

“Then were we something more?”

😭😭😭

I’m already dying 😭

“Ruin Danaan, Crown Prince of the Valbaran Fae, was staring at her.”

“I wish I could hate you”

*sobbing uncontrollably*

Because then this wouldn’t be so hard 😭😭😭

Oh no. Not another morass.

Wait. Her parents think she’s been kidnapped by a human trafficker and upon her return, her Dad gives her a hug and then sits down to finish watching the news without talking to her?

I’ve been overlooking a lot but that’s a bit much.

“You cannot say that to me.”

She says for the 10th time in 100 pages.

Hate to say it, but it’s not going so well.

“The bitter, illogical taste of jealousy fills my mouth, but there’s no time to examine that particular oddity, not when there’re only seconds before he’s in front of me again.”

I can’t remember the last time I saw anyone use “there’re” instead of there are (or there’s) and I’ve already seen it twice in this.

A minor gripe, but such an odd choice that immediately pulled me out of reading.

I forgot how readable Kristoff is, even when it’s so lengthy.

3.5

She forgave them too quickly, the stalker plot is starting to drag on, and I’m losing my ability to suspend my disbelief about how poorly these supposedly super connected guys are handling security.

BUT I loved seeing her relationship with Archer finally explode. And the smut was smutty.

“…and there it was, that flickering smile, like an ember, coaxed with every breath.”

* swoons *

“So I guess I’m not scared of who you are, or even what you are. I’m scared of why you are.”

*chills*

What is with this murder mystery plot. Like, why do I care - let’s deal with the curse please.

“Hundreds upon hundreds of starlings took to the skies like a scream given shape…”

On a different day I’d be rolling my eyes. But today I’m giggling that the serious conversation being had revolves around a requirement that the FMC has sex with three alpha vampires at the same time 😂😂

His eyes finally meet mine. “I know people expect the worst of me,” he says quietly. “I didn’t realize you were among them.”

😭😭

“Ah, Tessa.” There’s something simultaneously wicked and warm in his eyes. “No one dared, until you.”