House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3)

by Sarah J. Maas

But Flynn had blasted Sabine’s face clean off.

WHAT ?!?! JUST LIKE THAT?!!!

An enormous worm, gleaming with water and mud.

Not the Middengard Worm back for more!

“What the fuck was that thing?” Nesta glanced to the shadows behind Bryce, as if someone stood there. But she said, “A Middengard Wyrm.” “Middengard?” Bryce started at the word. “Like—Midgard? Did they come from my world originally?” Horrific as the creature was, to have another being from her world here was … oddly comforting. And maybe finding a scrap of comfort in that fact proved how fucking desperate she was. “I don’t know,” Nesta said. “Are they common around here?” If they were, no wonder the Fae had bailed on this world.

SARAH WHAT YOU NAMED MIDGARD AFTER THE FUCKING WORM!!!?????

when Nesta lifted an arm. Silver flame wreathed her fingers. Bryce backed away a step.

My babygirl has mastered her powers :,)

She met his stare, if only because his cock was in her face and she had little interest in looking at it for another second of her existence.

Period Lidia

She hurried into the bathroom, still humid from Pollux’s shower—usually so hot she wondered if he was trying to scald the evil from himself

LOL

Nesta’s eyes slid to Bryce’s for a heartbeat. As if understanding at last: Bryce’s “unhealing” hand. The blood she’d wiped on the walls. Her musing about the linked river system in these caves, sussing out what they knew regarding the terrain and the Wyrm. To unleash this thing—on them. “I’m sorry,” Bryce said to her. And ran. She meant them no harm—she hadn’t lied about that. They could undoubtedly face the Wyrm and live. Nesta had said her sister had done exactly that. But Bryce needed to learn whatever Urd had sent her to discover.

Damn Bryce is COLD for that one

A hand wrapped around Bryce’s throat. A blade poked into her back. And Azriel’s voice was whisper-soft as he snarled, “Give me one reason not to bury this knife in your spine.”

Hot

“What is she—” Bryce began, but Azriel clamped a hand over her mouth, hauling her farther down the tunnel.

Again, hot

“Enough, fish,” the Viper Queen said, pocketing her phone in her gold jumpsuit.

BURN

“We grew too populous. Wars broke out between the various beings on our world. Some of us saw the changes in the land beginning—rivers run dry, clouds so thick the sun could not pierce them—and left.

And thats on climate change

He hadn’t been able to get on that boat. Ketos might be able to walk away from the consequences of his actions, but Ithan couldn’t.

Damn does sarah aslo hate Tharion? What a BURN

Azriel might very well have killed her if she’d stayed a moment longer.

The fact that people thought they were mates lol

So many roots, all intent on tripping her delicate hooves.

Why are the hooves always delicate, sarah?

Had demanded that they give every last drop to Lidia.

Okay so she "died" but not really a la rhys in ACOWAR

Hunt finished his own plate of fish, then the rest of Tharion’s,

Does that make Tharion a cannibal

The Hind lay before him—the fucking Hind. How could he feel such relief about someone he hated so much? How could he hate someone whose life mattered more to him than his own?

girl why are you still hung up on that let it go

All right. She was pissed off. “It’s almost like you want me to resent you.” “I wanted you to listen,” she snapped, “but you wouldn’t. Yet now that I fit some sort of acceptably sad female backstory, you’re willing to hear me out.”

RIP HIM A NEW ONE BABYGIRL

Ithan was carefully setting down a figurine of Cthona giving birth on all fours—the planet Midgard crowning between her legs

Sarah youre really wild for some of this

And since you and I are married …” “Are you asking for a divorce?”

When did they marry?? Did i miss the save the date?

Morganthia Dragas and her coven have staged a coup in the name of what they consider the preservation of witchkind’s old ways. I am Queen of the Valbaran Witches no longer.”

WHO? Where? MORIGANA whoooooo hunny what

Bryce opened her mouth, rallying power to her star, but Tharion spoke from behind them. “I’ll marry Sathia.”

Tharions storyline is actually a fever dream

It took Hypaxia seven hours, seven minutes, and seven seconds to raise Sigrid.

And thats on SEVEN™

his powerful thighs

Not the powerful thighs

Flynn and Dec seemed content to let them do the work, because they didn’t show up. Or perhaps they’d gone off on some important errand and couldn’t let them know, with no way to text or call.

Theyre captured for SURE

Dark, scabby hands dragged Flynn and Declan out of the shadows. The males struggled, but the ghouls held them in check.

CALLED IT AGAIN sarah youre getting predictable

“Is that a laser?” Tharion shouted as rock crumbled from where the light had sliced into it, the cave-in now cutting off access to the two Fae Kings, Flynn and Dec, and the Murder Twins. And a bunch of ghouls.

Damn no one gives a shit about Flynn and Dec my poor boys

Bryce could only gape at her mate as he grabbed the drinking bowl and held it out to her. Ready to follow her into Hel.

God theyre cheesy af Hunt is so mid lol

“Like calls to like,” Bryce murmured.

Christ sarah loves this phrase lol

“The three of us,” Aidas amended. “Our four other brothers are currently engaged in other conflicts, helping other worlds.” “I didn’t realize you guys were, like, intergalactic saviors,” Bryce said.

FORESHADOWING TO ANOTHER SERIES????

“I’m sick and tired of people using girl as an insult.”

Ooh PERIOD, Bryce

His throat worked for a moment. “I’m some weird demonic test-tube baby.” “Maybe that’s where you came from, Hunt,” she said, offering him a gentle smile, “but it’s not who you are—who you became.”

Aww but youre MY demonic test tube baby <3

Hunt rolled his eyes. “My wife, that’s who.”

WHEN DID THEY MARRY??????? Why don’t I remember this happening LOL

“Don’t give up. You’re exhausted—you’ve been working for hours. You’ll find a cure.” “I already found it.”

Queen shit

He stiffened. “I’m not a planner. I’m a sunball player, for fuck’s sake—” “You were a sunball player,” she said.

LOL SUNBALL IS OVER ITHAN

“The security footage.” Ember pointed with a shaking gloved finger. Bryce knew the trembling wasn’t from cold. Her mom hit a key on the computer and the footage began rolling. “Is that …,” Bryce breathed. “We need to get to the Rift,” Hunt growled. “Now.”

Please let it be Danika lol

“I don’t understand,” Ember was saying as she squeezed through behind Bryce, Randall hot on her tail. Hunt came last. “What is the Harpy doing out here?”

Ugh DAMMIT

The Prime took the sword Ithan offered, his withered hand shaking with the effort of holding the heavy blade.

Yo is he about to behead Sabine rn

Even Sabine paused to watch as Sigrid plunged her clawed hand into his chest, ripping out his still-beating heart in the same moment that she inhaled deeply, and that glimmering light—the secondlight—of his soul rose up through his body, into their fused mouths— Not Ithan’s problem.

Ithan stays in his lane baby-Sigrid? Not his problem no mo

“I yield.” She added a heartbeat later, “I yield to the Prime.” The words struck a chord in him, one of despair and suffocation. But he couldn’t stop it—the instinct to reach forward and lightly clamp his teeth around Perry’s slender throat. To take that cinnamon-and-strawberry taste into his mouth. To accept her submission to him. Her recognition.

Hot LOL

Darkness—flecked by starlight. A female with golden-brown hair sat in an armchair before a fireplace on the other side of it. All that darkness was the starry night beyond her windows.

FEYRE???

And her face was a portrait of pure shock as Bryce lifted a hand in greeting and said, “Hello, Nesta.”

Well i was basically right LOL NESTA is likee"god dammit not this bitch AGAIN"

“Morals,” the River Queen mused. “What morals do you have other than ensuring your own survival at any cost? Was it your morals that guided you when you took my daughter’s maidenhead, swearing to love her until you died, and then toyed with her affections for the next decade?”

READ HIM FOR FILTH RIVER QUEEN

Disgust roiled through him. He’d never once hated Bryce, but in that moment, as she doubted him, he did.

Hunt, thats a strong word babes tone it down

At least as sunball captain, he’d had coaches telling him what to do. Now he was coach and captain rolled into one.

Not sunballlllllllllllllll

Urd, they call her here—a bastardized version of her true name. Wyrd, we called her in that old world.”

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP OH MY GOD??????????!!!!!!!!

Only when they stood before it did Connor speak again. “That bullet,” Connor said, nodding to where Ithan held it, “was made by us—the dead. For Bryce.” A soft, pained smile crossed his face at her name. “To use with the Godslayer Rifle.”

Connor has been dead this entire series and hes stayed a fave lol

they seemed like they’d leveled up.

Sarah can we please stop sayin "leveled up"

Hunt smirked. “All the underwear they gave me on the Depth Charger was too small for this.”

JAIL. FEDERAL PRISION

and she was his and he was hers, and there was a word for it, but it eluded him.

I think the word youre looking for is MATE ya dingus