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Havelock is Howl from Howls moving castle. Like almost identical I’m just waiting for him to bring out Calcifer.

Rough knuckles lifted to her cheek. “Why are you crying?” He crooned her first words to him with a look so warm and earnest she could see her Dougan staring out through his eyes. “Did you lose something?” The tears fell faster, harder, drenching the fingers he brushed against her face.
Me too I’m crying too.

“You see, Mr. Blackwell, your kind are not the only ones who keep their promises. I, too, made a promise years ago, that I’d never let Dougan Mackenzie go hungry, and I kept that promise up until the day he … the day … he…”

I’m already crying. Again. I also cried in the first chapter.

If a guy did any of this to me I’d burn his house down. But it’s ok because book boys get away with much much more than the real life ones.

If my friend complained to me about how her billionaire boyfriend tried to pay for everything even though she didn’t want him to I’d punch her in the face.

No wonder I wasn’t impressed with the book before this. Sloane is an utter b word.

“My mamma had taken a bottle of wine and a Xanax up to her room, and she hadn’t made an appearance below stairs in hours.”

I think it’s funny how the dark romance girls on YouTube talk about their favorite part of the book is when he sets a gas station on fire because the owners harassed her. And they are right it’s really freaking romantic.

“Thane’s an idiot,” said Roland with disgust. “A man who can’t even recognize his own dog doesn’t deserve to be recognized as a man.”

“We’ve had an invite, but Andrew is so stuffy, poor dear, and I really can’t put him through more than one social event per week. He finds it very wearing.”

This book taught me the word cuckold lol

I just highlighted basically the entire 16th chapter. I don’t know how I only had 6 annotations the first time I read this.

It’s that time of year again where I get sad and read this book.

“The panic subsided a bit more when the healer examined her and informed him that she had only a fever. Only. There was no “only” when it came to his wife. When the old woman had made that mistake, he’d scared her out of half the years she had left—and she didn’t have many to spare.”

I don’t think I’ve ever like a female lead in a romantasy novel. Except Emily Wilde but that books just different.

“Jessica, you are a pain in the arse, do you know that?” He scowled at her. “If I were not so immensely fond of you, I should throw you out the window.”
She wrapped her arms about his waist and laid her head against his chest. “Not merely ‘fond,’ but ‘immensely fond.’ Oh, Dain, I do believe I shall swoon.”

“For another full minute he gazed, slack-jawed, into her beautiful tranquil, slumbering face. Just like a damned man, he thought exasperatedly. She got what she wanted, then curled up and went to sleep.”

“and buried his grieving heart, as he always did, under laughter.”
I think this reread is really for me emphasizing what a little romantic and emotional man Dain is.

“Women have been given a harsh lot in this life,” Father MacKechnie continued. “Yet they survive and, in fact, find ways to flourish in such a restrictive setting. They certainly have to be more clever than men, lass, to get their voices heard.”

“You’re an unusual woman.” “I try not to be. It is difficult, though, when you consider my past.” “I give you a compliment when I tell you I think you’re unusual,” Gilard returned, smiling over the worry he’d caught in her voice. Did she think unusual meant a flaw of some sort, he wondered.

This book talks about how the highlanders don’t wear anything under their plaid which is something I’ve thought a lot about. Riding a horse bare ass naked sounds horrible.

I needed a reset. I feel like each book I read was crazier than the last these past few months. So I’m coming back to my roots to remember not everyone is in the mafia or crazy in general.

This book was so freaking good. I put it off despite what Reddit said because it seemed a little bit too much and there were a lot of bad reviews but damn can Penelope write. Someone said should “should be cringey but is incredible” and I couldn’t agree more.

If you took a shot every time they said “mate”, you’d be dead.

I’d like to take a poll to see what people do when they are reading in public and a sex scene happens. What’s the protocol here.

“Aunt Mary is preparing a rather nice dinner for this Sunday, and she’ll complain horribly if the family has to attend your funeral instead.” “I’ll save the world for the sake of Aunt Mary’s roast lamb.”

“In about an hour or so they’ll transform back into people, with no lingering harm other than an inclination toward vegetarianism.” “They’re Texans!” “Oh dear,” Elodie repeated, wincing.

I love how she calls Xanax her calming pills.

“You’re overwrought,” she said. “I should have realized. We’ve both been under a strain. And it’s harder on you because you are so sensitive and emotional.”

He had said that someone had to marry her because she was a public menace, and he supposed he was the only one big and mean enough to manage her.