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“No. She wasn’t upset. She was mad. It felt good to be mad. It felt invigorating to be able to feel emotions without fearing punishment. It felt alive.”

“Do you need me to draw you a chart? You stood me up. You made me think there was something between us. You made me want things, things I thought I could never have, and then you crushed it. Don’t come near me Curran. Don’t call. We’re done.”

“She would have told the girl not to go to the office, not to push when she was already feeling uncomfortable. She would have told her to respect her limitations as well as her abilities.”

❤️

“You can’t take back the friendship you’ve already given without bruising Meg’s heart. But you can choose not to go beyond the friendship as it is now…
Meg has only been free of her captors for two months. She is learning who she is.”

This resonates so much with me.

“I think our Meg trusts even less than you… will you be like the human who used her and thought he owned her, or will you be a friend she can trust?”

❤️

“And even more than hating the way her voice sounded defensive, she hated the thought that she might have to act submissive to someone else who assumed he had the right to control her life.”

…that line I felt down to my soul.

“For her fiend, for her family, she would gladly be a monster… monster of no, never in ten thousand years would she have let Dorian face his father alone. Even if Dorian had told her to go. A month ago, she and Rowan had chose to face the Vlag princess together-to die together, if need be, rather than do so alone.”

#chaolsucks

After Choal calls her a monster she responds: “I’ve made my peace with that… I’ll be at my old apartment, should you decide to take your head out of your ass.”

Still willing to trust him and work with him. Even after he insults her, withholds crucial information from her and unveils his ridiculous plan.

Aelin finds out Dorian has a wyrdstone collar:

“She wasn’t entirely certain she she could handle being touched without ripping his face off.”

She told him what had been going on… his response: “so you’re here alone… you came back, but without an army. Without allies. You came back empty handed.”

🤬

“The grief in Choal’s eyes kept her from speaking… her wrath and tears would do no good. Her plans would change again-but not by much.”

Choal messes up and she forgives him, or at least suppresses it and moves forward. She’s a much better friend than him and a much better person.

Every time I read this series I hate him a little more.

You should have gotten Dorian and Sorscha out the day the king butchered those slaves. Did you learn nothing from Nehemiah’s death? Did you somehow think you could win with your honor intact, without sacrificing something? You shouldn’t have left him; how could you face the king alone? How could you…how could you?

Biggest difference between Aelin and Choal: she thinks these things but doesn’t say them.

He didn’t walk he stalked, deliberate, quiet, watchful. His hair, a deep russet shade, was tousled. He wore black, and while the dark pants and dark doublet obscured the exact lines of his body, it was very clear that he was corded with hard muscle… He looked hard, the way veteran soldiers sometimes look hard without trying.
I definitely had seen him and the arbitrator before. I just couldn’t recall when.

The man smiled at me. Quiet humor tinted hjs pale blue eyes,as if he found the world a perpetually amusing place. They were the kind of eyes that shone with intelligence, confidence and calculation. He didn’t look—he watched, noticed and evaluated--and I had a feeling that even when his mouth and his eyes smiled , his mind remained alert and razor-sharp.

I had seen him before. I remembered that face. But where?

“I have to be able to face myself in the mirror everyday.”

Isn’t that rule 1 for the Baylor family?? (Ilona andrews hidden legacy)

Sagrada family = sagredo family aka Alessandro…
Another IA reference

“At lest you got a snack,” Priya propped her chin in her bands. “Sometimes? I’d trade the sec for a really satisfying nosh.”
“TMI. And get a better partner.”
😂🤣

Chariot. Another unanswered question from
Book 1: who is chariot??

Levi’s executive assistant described as a “pet dragon” like IA’s Kate Daniels series where she compares Maxine to a dragon…

I laughed and opened my arms. “My hero.”
“You’re an asshole,” he told me.
“You knew that before you asked me to marry you. What, no hug?”
🤣😂

Called it!!! I freaking KNEW it!!! 😆

All of the lifelike have angelic names and were created by Eve’s father. We know that Eve “died.”
I’m thinking her brain was implanted into a lifelike and Ana became Eve.

I’m feeling kind of betrayed. We met Daleina and watched her journey. I was thinking Mari would be queen and she would be advisor, or that the candidates would unite and be a strong force… but that didn’t happen. She’s queen and she’s dying and now we’re searching for a new Queen Daleina?! What was the point of the last book??

Yet another whole new group of characters for us to learn… and right in the middle of a battle.

Another world building plot hole: arcane energy interferes with electronic devices, but none of the characters ever had that problem before…

I skipped the previous book. I’ve read it. I remember the key parts, but honestly, hate Chaol too much to read his story yet again. I’d rather skip to where we left off with Aelin Being captured by Maeve.

“Need I remind you, Captain, that you went to Endovier and did not blink at the slaves, at the mass graves? Need I remind you that i was starved and chained, and you let Duke Perrington force me to the ground at Dorian’s feet while you did nothing? And now you have the nerve to accuse me of not caring, when many of the people in this city have profited off the blood and misery of the very people you ignored?”

“Until then, the fact remains, Captain, that you have not picked a side because you are still a boy, and you are still afraid. Not if losing innocent lives, but of losing whatever dream it is you’re clinging to. Your prince has moved on, my queen has moved on. But YOU have not. And it will cost you in the end.”

Go Aedion!!!!

“She was not becoming anything different from what she always was and always had the capacity to be. You just finally saw everything. And once you saw that other part of her…
You cannot lick and choose what part of her to love.”

#teamdorian #chaolisadouche

Chaol has just learned that her parents were murdered, “slaughtered” and she was found in the bed with their bodies. He’s learned her true identity. Instead of empathy for the woman he was falling in love with his response was:

“It made her the greatest threat he had ever encountered.”

He sees Celeana as the threat, not the king that murdered an entire kingdom. 🙄

“There was nothing human in her eyes, nothing remotely merciful. It froze his heart.”

So last chapter he was imagining marrying her, and now he afraid of her again. He can’t have it both ways! When you love someone, you love ALL of them. She has a reason for her rage and he is a selfish asshole.

“He would move one. Because he would not be like the ancient kings in the song and keep her for himself. She deserved a loyal, brave knight who saw her for what she was and did not fear her.”

That description does not fit Chaol 🤷🏽‍♀️