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When Stark is done he leans down to lick the wound clean as custom dictates. His hair brushes my cheek then the wet heat of his tongue traces the marks he made in blood and ink. My body responds with a fierce rush of arousal […]

If she dies of sepsis I’m giving this 5 stars

[…] “Hold on,” I say, unable to hold back my frustration. “I don’t understand the whole purging thing. Why kill each other? Why thin our own ranks when we need every warrior we can get […]


Interesting thing to say for someone who already murdered one of their fellow recruits with zero hesitation like five chapters ago 🙃

Recruits are dying left and right during this training camp situation.
The country has been at war for 500 years which has to mean that many people died and are still dying in this ongoing conflict (which I’m told nothing about).
And yet no one gives a shit that their potential soldiers die for nothing, they encourage it??

Make it make sense 🫠

She killed another student, gets a tattoo as punishment or whatever and then the dude licks her because „we lick one another’s tattoos when we’re done, it’s an instinct to help heal the surface of the skin“

Help get an infection you mean wtf💀

Love that the author legit thinks the reader is too dumb to pick up on the classism so the fmc is telling you about it every few chapters just to make sure you really get it 💀