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don’t know how she manages it but Sophy only gets more and more amazing and iconic.
And she really brings out the best in Charles.

Clearly, she needed his help. A firm hand. Guidance. A decision passed through him, a slow smile curving his lips.
“You can relax, Silla. You are with me now,” he said. “I will ensure your safety, but you must do as I say. Do you agree to this?”
Not condescending at all Jonas... 😑

The pacing is a bit too slow, but I'm enjoying the story, but God all of Silla and Jonas interactions are bad clichè + cringe + ridiculous behavior + red flag, please tell me this thing between them will be over soon.

This family desperately needed Sophy, both Cecilia and Charles are making wrong choices that without Sophy’s interference would bring them a lifetime of regret and unhappiness

My reaction to Silla and Jonas ""attraction"", ""tension"" and ""lust""🤢
It's so bad I need to skim through those scenes or they'll put me off from reading.
It won't be endgame, on the romance aspect the potential is with Rey.

P.S. Why doesn't Silla simply buy a new cloak if she knows hers is recognizable?

First thoughts:
Silla seems an ok fmc...? nothing that makes me like or dislike her so far, a pretty standard fmc.
The story has promise.

Does Eugenia really think she can use her fauxs politeness that masks bitchness with Sophy? Has she not figured out yet that Sophy is a master and, still remaining honest, can work any situation and conversation and come out on top? Witty, deft, determined and feisty, Sophy is a queen!
(love how Charles started the converstion angry with her and she disarmed him to the point he ended up being the on to apologize XD)

I really don't know how I'll rate it, because I like the story, I love the family moments and the drama with the mmc, his sister and his nemesis, but I don't feel anything for the main romance, they are cute together but I don't feel the chemistry so the spice is just cringy to me.

ALEX: Heard you’ve been making out with your new wife.
MILES: I’m sure you did.
CLEM: When are we going to meet her?
ALEX: We’re meeting her at dinner on Friday, obviously.
MILES: No, we’re opting out this week.
ALEX: Opting out isn’t an option.
MILES: We’re not coming, Alex.
ALEX: We’ll see.
MILES: You can meet her next week.
LANDO: Can someone tell me how to mute these messages?

Lando 🤣🤣

It always rubs me the wrong way when in marriage of convenience, the people who know the marriage has a motive and there's no real bond there, are from the get go, "you are what he/she needs" or making innuendos... As a reader, I know they'll fall in love, but a character inside the story talking to this person who is only temporarily marrying someone as part of a deal... I find it weird.
Apart from that, nice start

She really is great. Such an icon. And the way she turned the conversation around Charles to the point he didn’t even know what he was supposed to be angry about anyomore? Art.

I really don’t know what I feel like reading so I’m going with this since it’s short, also, many times I stumbled on bad urban fantasy but this one seems ok, and I hear the series gets way better from book 2 on, so like it or dislike it I’ll have taken this off the tbr and be ready for when I feel like going with the second one

Victory, like happiness, is a state we pass through.

With his usual grim efficiency, Vabras had reduced the contenders down to their Guardian name:
FOX VS RAVEN
OX VS HOUND
TIGER VS DRAGON
(QUARTER HOUR BREAK)
FOX VS HOUND
Shal read it through first. “What’s the break for?”
“Ruko’s funeral,” Cain said.

I'm very eager for this fight, I don't think Ruko will die, it'd be too easy, but I admit, I laughed here

She had a thousand questions.But there was only one that mattered.The one she’d been wanting to ask since the opening ceremony.The same question he’d asked her long ago,in a cramped room at the Raven palace
She asked him,her words lost in the boom of another firework
“Sorry,could you repeat that?”He’d heard her just fine,the bastard
“I said:Do you ever think of—”
“All the time”His eyes softened.“All the time”

Until now, the crowds had enjoyed watching Cain fight. But Cain liked Tala, and respected Katsan and the Visitor. Havoc was another matter. Cain gave him no quarter. Havoc had been formally trained since he was six. So what. Cain had been fighting since the day he was born. Havoc wasn’t his opponent; he was his enemy. After the first round, the Ox contingent had to come out and rinse the blood off the canvas

If Neema reached with her mind she could see him, both in her physical body and somewhere dreamed from her imagination. As if the interior of her chest was both as it was: bones, blood, muscle, lungs, heart… but also a room, a space.A nest.
We ravens like to know every inch of our surroundings down to the last twig. Sol was taking an inventory of his new home, tapping and testing along each rib with his beak

Come with us, up through the palace, look there’s Neema on the stairs, long limbs and tight black curls, Raven sigil on her chest. Cain at her side. Don’t tell them this, but they are a handsome couple, somehow more handsome together than apart. They make sense: two sides of the same pendant.

P.S. Unrelated: I knew there was a reason I had a dislike for that character

Damn Yasila is remarkable. Such an interesting badass character.

Cain and Tala were still arguing about which of them would take the throne,but it would be Ruko, Neema was sure of it. He had the ruthless ambition, the focus, the self-control. Most of all,the need. Sacrificing his sister had left him with no choice—he had to win, or else he had killed her for nothing
What he did was chilling and he'll never be a likable character, but I can't deny he seems an interesting one

Cain caught her eye and winked.
A timely reminder not to trust him, not one inch. Behind the carefree facade lay a shrewd, determined schemer. As he had once told her: “I have to work really hard to look this lazy.”

Really liking this, it seems interesting

Thank God for this book that saved me while I couldn't find a romantasy to get into

I've been discarding one book after another in the last few days in a "disappointed, can't get into anything, every book feels the same and shallow" mood (harsh I know), this is the first one that seems really interesting... I'm begging you book!

P.S.1 looking at friends reviews this was either a 5 stars or a dnf 🫣

P.S.2 what was done to Yana is monstrous. Her brother is loathsome.

Arabella’s brother gambling storyline is the only thing I find a bit boring and not very engaging, everything else is spot on historical romance, Arabella and Beaumaris work perfectly together and his dry sense of humor kills me.

These two 🤣

“I hate you sometimes.”
“And I love you every moment.”
I adore their scenes and the love between them<3

But I'll say, don't come for me, this book did NOT need to be this long. In this middle part the plot, that I really like, is being too diluted; there are some really interesting moments (the Other/Kaan scene!) but also a lot of fillers. And can Raeve just tell Kaan stuff, please it's getting annoying

“You should know,” she grinds out past trembling lips, “with every bit of her heart, she loved you.”
The words are still echoing as I look at the floor and close my eyes, certain that no words have ever torn me so clean open.
Have ever bled me so fucking dry.

Finally some truths are coming out. I want Kaan to know what happened! Since the readers already know, can we please hurry up on telling him too?!