Lola’s Reviews > The Poet Empress > Status Update

“If she keeps going, she will die.”
“She is only a concubine.”
“She is my empress.”

Well damn. You almost made me not dislike you Terren but NO, you are still a big mf.

I’m so used to noticing little things in books, because tell me how I know now that Maro is going to die because the author wrote “post humous” in the intro of the chapter I’m currently in 😂 I hope he take Terren with him. They should go and continue their strained siblinghood there.

This is breaking my heart but I really love how everything is opening up as you’re reading this book. There is no huge drop at the end or smth, there’s a “little by little” drops along the way and I really love that.

Sanya and Dada found me but in another location 😭 I see them in Maro and Terren. Maro = Dada, Terren = Sanya.

“I’m sorry.”
“Say it three times and I will forgive you.”
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”

Well fuck. Why am I crying?!

“Terren still hurt me at night. In fact, he hurt me worse than before.”

Never mind, that mf.

“Guards, bring her to my betrothed.”

I know this is not romance, I know I should not like him YET but I will take the little I get. Ughh I love the sound of that.

“And the worst part was, when the doctors came tomorrow, it would be only me who died. Terren might lose his throne, but that was all he would lose. I was a girl, and replaceable, and once they found me undutiful, they could simply throw me away and find another. And I hated and hated that they could.”

UGH one of the reasons I always run from historical fictions. The misogyny makes me so angry.