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Ashley Shea
is 57% done
This is going by too quickly. I'm going to be so sad when it's over! But nonstop STUFF keeps happening! There's been yearning! Amazing banter! Murder and mayhem galore! I don't know if I'm going to be able to keep track of it. We're looking for the original pilgrims, for Alex's dad, and for pieces of a golem, we're trying to close the door to hell... aaaaaand we need to smoosh Alex and Darlington together.
— Sep 22, 2026 05:34AM
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Ashley Shea
is 79% done
If I just stop here, all will be well and I can pretend to be happy and pretend that Queen Bardugo doesn't absolutely own my soul. To have written this pair that absolutely leap off the page and to feel as though I'm walking with them, hoping with them, yearning with them. And now to feel this potential despair with them... I can't tell if I'd rather have a simple life or if this is exactly what I read for. LIVE for!
— Sep 24, 2026 05:23AM
Ashley Shea
is 31% done
Having JUST read Hell Bent, this felt like adding another warm blanket on a cold day. There's so much of Darlington's "voice" in the first two books that it's easy to forget he wasn't actually IN the first two books very much. Now, so far, seeing him interact with Alex and Dawes, I can feel his frustration at trying to stay human AND trying to fit back into his role as Virgil. It's tense so far in more ways than one.
— Sep 20, 2026 06:22PM