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Reading it for the next Bookish Box Special Edition. Not sure if I’m hoping to like it or hate it...those editions are $$$

Bookish Box next SE contender…

I can’t believe Bookish Box are dictating my reads at the moment. First Zodiac Academy and now this. I hope I hate it so won’t be spending $$$ on the special editions 🤞😂

And you are a commoner. Moreover, much to my joy, you are a commoner with no connections at all. No resources. No protector. You are My natural prey. I want you. Not, perhaps, in a spiritual fashion, rather in a very mortal fashion. For I, too, am a creature most singularly untouched by the gentler emotions. It is not gentle emotions that I spoke of, though. But I do want you, and what I want, I eventually have.

“It’s very simple, my dear. Very unfair, if you will, but nonetheless, simple. I am not a good man. I am at the present, as a matter of record, rejoicing in one of the most evil reputations in all of England. But don’t pity me, Regina, for I swear it is well deserved. But I am very wealthy, and I am a duke, a duke of all things.”

“Did I love him? How could I love a beast who’d tortured me? What would that make me if I did? Just a broken, fractured, beaten, stupid girl who’d fallen for her tormentor. But maybe I was all of those things. Maybe I was worse because I’d hurt him too while placing all of the blame on him. Maybe we were just two sides of the same coin.”

“Kindness is never a mistake,’ said the Elder Steward. ‘Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered.”

“She deserves to know how much I care about her even if she can’t ever be mine. I don’t want her thinking the man the stars chose for her was nothing but a monster. But I am a monster all the same. And no matter how much I make up for, that isn’t going to
change. There’s darkness in me that will never find the light. So she’s better off away from me anyway.”

“He was like a drug and I felt like an addict going back for another hit. I knew that he was poison, but I just couldn’t stop myself from taking a bite.”

“What the fuck?” I snapped as he looked over my blood red underwear with a heated gaze.
“Did that piss you off?” he asked.
“Yes,” I snarled.
“Then show me how much,” Darius dared.

“I don’t want you on your knees. I want you fighting me and hating me and fucking me like you mean it. You’re Roxanya Vega and you weren’t built to bow to anyone,” he growled passionately.
“You want me to hate you?” I asked in surprise.
“I want you to feel for me. And I’ll take hate if that’s all you’re offering.”

“Good. Because I’m not a better man,” he said in a low growl, his eyes full of shadows. “I’m the devil and I want you. I want you like I’ve never wanted anything or anyone. And I will fight to make you mine, no matter what it takes. No force in Solaria will rip us apart.”

“So I won’t let you ignore me, Roxy,” he snarled. “I’ll have your attention even if I have to take it without your permission.”
“Why?” I demanded. “Why not just go after someone else?”
“Because we don’t get to choose our obsessions. And you’re mine.”

“So if she wanted us to hate each other then I’d just have to play my part in it. Because I couldn’t keep away from her, that much was becoming abundantly clear. So I’d just have to keep being her villain.”

Hmmm…I don’t trust Wen.

Oh for f*&£’s sake !🤷🏽‍♀️ Really? Gills?

“Griffin’s big body coils tight, ready to shield me from anything. “That’s possible?” he asks.
“Apparently. I’ve never heard of it happening to anyone else. I’m special, I guess.”
He grunts. I guess he agrees.”

Indeed 🙄🙄🙄

“He spreads his hands wide. “You know everything.”
I grin and flip my damp braid over my shoulder. “I do, don’t I?”

Understatement of the year 🙄

“I love you,” you said into my mouth. It sounded like you were drawing up a peace treaty to protect the boundary lines of contested ground. “I promise you that.”

“In this world, you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night’s fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice suffering under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of debts being wiped clean.
I say you do not have a name.”

I did not see that coming 😮😮😮😮😮😮

“When this campaign is over, I think—if you are a man and not a worm—you will attempt to gain retribution for what has happened to you. I expect it. On that day, we roll the dice and see how they fall. Until then, you serve me.”

“I’ve wanted you since the moment I laid eyes on you, Goldfinch. I was just waiting for you to catch up.”

🥰🥰🥰🥰 Can i just die nowwwwww

“You’re not the villain in my story.”
“I am,” he says without remorse, his sharp jaw tight with tension. “But I’ll be the villain for you. Not to you.”

Oooh i’m hoping “Sarah” is who i think she is...that bump to her head (in the past) is making her unreliable but very veryyyyy intriguing.

“In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake, and eat only what you can stomach”

“All my onyxes, my agates, my obsidian. All my black treasures in this one strand,” Koschei murmured. “How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.”
Marya took her hair from his fist and lifted it, heavy as a rope, twisting it around his neck, bringing his face close to hers. He smelled like barley and old trees. But then, maybe he smelled that way only because it pleased her.

“All my onyxes, my agates, my obsidian. All my black treasures in this one strand,” Koschei murmured. “How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.”
Marya took her hair from his fist and lifted it, heavy as a rope, twisting it around his neck, bringing his face close to hers. He smelled like barley and old trees. But then, maybe he smelled that way only because it pleased her.

“Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I’ve eaten my share. That’s lesson number one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.”

“Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I’ve eaten my share. That’s lesson number one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.”