Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)

by Rachel Gillig

Minutes. Hours. Days. Let. Me. Out.

Quote. That. Shit.

A man, clad in golden armor, stood on the dark shore just beyond the break in the tide, watching me.

He better let her out 😒

HELL 👏🏼 YES 👏🏼 DUAL POV

“To collect his due.”

YESSSSSS I LOVE THISSS

“Ours, dear one.”

This is everything 🥹

Providence Cards did not affect the Shepherd King. It was written in The Old Book of Alders.

Oh?

“When this is all over, I’m stripping you of command.”

WHAT

“I assure you, there was a wound. A bad one.”

Is she infected

Ravyn uttered one nonetheless. “Fuck you.”

KING

Black hides the bloodstain, forever his mark. Alone in the castle, Prince of the dark.”

Poor Elm 🫶🏼

“Beginning tomorrow night, there will be six feasts. On the sixth, you will choose a wife.”

Wow…

“Surely you didn’t think it was sheep I shepherded.”

WHAT A KING

The Nightmare lowered himself to a crouch, peered at the wound—the sludging, fetid blood. “How unfortunate,” he said with a sigh. “There is poison in the water.”

Oh my god

“We will have our payment, Captain,” Otho said. “Now.”

Fine 😌

“Yes. A tall man I’ve never seen before guarded me with a sword. He had yellow eyes, just as Elspeth does now. He took my hand, unfurled my fingers. There were three Cards, nestled in my palm. The Maiden, the Scythe—” Her hazel eyes lifted. “And the Twin Alders.”

FUCK YES!!!

“Just when I think you’re getting tolerable, you go and open your mouth.”

BAHAHAHAHA

Something inside of Ravyn shattered. “I’m right behind you.”

I WILL BE SO UPSET IF SHE DIES ⚔️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🩸🩸

“To the heir.”

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! YESSSSS

You wrote Blunder’s history, Aemmory Percyval Taxus. Now rewrite it.

Currently crying

“There are many circles that draw through time,” he said. “Many mirrored events, many woods that inevitably lead us to the same place. Much of what happened five hundred years ago has happened again.” His eyes narrowed. “But not this. You will not make a monster out of him as you did me, forcing him to give up a sister. Let go of Jespyr Yew. Or I will cleave your roots from this earth.”

YESSSS YES YESSSSSSS

“I didn’t know the Spirit would take Ayris. I didn’t mean for her to die.”

Okay this is making more sense

“Taxus. My name is Taxus.”

YESSSS!!!!!! I KNEW ITTT

I will take the throne of Blunder back. But not for you.” He straightened his spine, fixing Ravyn in his unflinching gaze. “For Elm.”

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

First of his name—King of the Elms.”

AHHHHHHHH

Irises, for my mother. And yellow because… well, Elm had been particular about that.

Awww