Felicia Manning’s Reviews > Two Twisted Crowns > Status Update

SPOILER ALERT. Quoting my favorite page of the book.
“ Id do it all again, just to know you a little better, Taxus.
He said nothing to that, reticent to accept, even now, that he was anything more than a monster. I don't know what it will be like to finally slip through the veil, he whispered. I hope it is as it was, eleven years ago, when you freed me from the Nightmare Card, Elspeth Spindle. Quiet. Gentle. Full of wonder.
It will be. It will be just like that.
He unclenched his jaw and hauled in a breath.
I'll tell you a story, I whispered. It always helped me sleep as a
child.
He nodded, folding his hands over his lap, and closed his
eyes.
There once was a girl, clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King, a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two-
I couldn't go on.
Elspeth.
No. I'm not ready. Not yet.
Finish the story, dear one.
My voice shook. The two were together— Together.
So the two were the same.
The girl, he whispered, honey and oil and silk. The King.
The final words together, our voices echoing, listless, dark. A final note. An eternal farewell. And the monster they became”

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