Nancy •͙͙✧⃝•͙͙✩ͯ ’s Reviews > The Poet Empress > Status Update

“They were about to kill you.”
“You should have let them.”
He gave me another one of his glass stares, the way he did whenever he
thought I was being stupid. “I’m the only one who gets to take your life.”

LMAO and they say romance is dead

it's okay.... my mental health is completely okay. I don't need help.

That timid and affectionate child, the one who wanted to heal and
protect everything—nobody had loved him back. Not his mother, certainly
not his father—and, at the end of it all, not even his brother.

STOP-

it's just not fair. How can a book break you so completely? STOP THIS TORTURE

THIS IS PAINFUL

“why are women always expected to love those who would hurt us? To take care of those who would use us, however they please, without the slightest regard for whether we lived or died?”

omg he did not bully/hurt/torture her this time!!! the bar is in hell I know

Chapter 20... I have no words. easily among the top 10 most horrifying scenes I have ever read. I'm still in shock. AND I'M NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH THE BOOK WTF?!

“If you tell anyone what happened last night,” he said, “I will kill you. If you try to escape the palace or get out of our betrothal, I will kill you.”

Okay, PRINCE CHARMING

I wondered if he bled like the rest of us. If underneath those gray robes, inside the cage of his chest, there was a beating heart just like mine.

THERE ISN'T