Alanna Thornton’s Reviews > The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door > Status Update

“He walked a little ahead, not looking back, an Orpheus with a string of Eurydices whom he had never meant to bring home.”

What a line!!!

Eddie had wanted to hide from the world. Hero had wanted to make it new. Alden and I, in our own ways, loved the old, safe world — Ashfield and Camford, tradition and beauty, the sunlit days of our childhoods before the Great War.
But the world had never been sale, not for everybody. It had been broken for a very long time, and the war had only shown those cracks for what they were.

Woah. Incredible twist. The classes. The power. The Families.

“This, I reminded myself, was what knowledge was for. Not to bend to our own purpose and our own ambitions, the way we had when we were young. To find the truth, even when that truth is something you wish could be different.”

“It was my favourite moment of research, the moment when a thousand fragments come together in a blinding flash that illuminates everything. This one I wasn’t sure ai wanted to see by, but out of sheer stubborn habit, I grasped for the fragments.”

“She bargained.”

My gasp. My tears.

Knew it!!

“his grey-blue eyes darted to my face and glanced off without meeting my eyes, as they had the first time we had met. They did that to people he didn't know well, I had learned long ago. The first time his gaze had settled on me had felt significant, as though he were giving me his trust to hold. Plainly, I had dropped it.”

My heart!!! <\3

“And when the nights faded and the sun came up, there were the three of you.”

Oof <\3 love this broken found family

when the long dark nightmare of the Great War was still a fresh scar on our minds. It had been a new, bright world, a world that had been smashed apart and that so many were determined to put back in a different shape. Now the pieces had fallen to earth, and already many had settled into old familiar grooves…