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“Take these insolent servants to the Room of Dread and Anticipation and thrash them. Do it right this time. I want him whipped until he is dead.”

Don't touch him :(

“So trust me. Don’t take any risks unless you have an absolutely imperative reason. I promise I won’t ever let you be hurt again.”
She heard the smile in Key’s voice as he murmured, “I believe in you.”
Beneath her hand she felt the rhythmic thunder of his heart. As though he were a real living person. As though she held the drums of war in the hollow of her hand.

Ugh this is not gonna end well!

I have a theory and I am like 99% certain I am right because the Emperor that Rae imagines and the current King do not align at all

“Is on the balcony, tending to her idiot sister,” Key murmured back. “You don’t need to tell me where she is. I always know where she is."

ofc he does

There is a musical number in this book lol I am unsure how I feel but so far this whole book has been campy so it makes sense

“It’s hard for me to think of the characters around us as real people. Do you understand? Are you like me?”
Key’s grey eyes went eagerly bright, silver as a magic blade. “I think so.”
Rae grasped his arm. “You walked into the book too?”
“Sorry,” said Key. “What book?”
His face was blank as a page with no story on it yet.
Rae sagged. “Ah. You’re a sociopath. My bad.”

LOL

“Do you lift?”
He tossed a smile gone sly over his bare shoulder. “Knives. Spoons to my mouth. A woman, once.”

Key the man that you are

“I’m a New York City boy myself.”

LOL I did not expect that hello plot twist!

Getting sick didn’t make Rae virtuous, it disrupted her plans. Now the prime minister was calling her a harlot. Oh no, whatever you do, don’t accuse me of being cool and sexy!

This book is so weirdly funny lmao I can't decide if I like it or not the tone is ??? but the plot is fun