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

by Sarah J. Maas

World-walkers.” Aidas gestured gracefully to Bryce. “You are one of them. So were Helena and Theia. Their natural abilities lent themselves to moving through the mists.”

Sounds like a multi verse word

Hel, his head had been spinning nonstop for the past ten minutes.

This much information at the 2\3 mark of the book? woof

A part of her recoiled in horror as their huge forms crumpled to the ground, steaming holes where their eyes had been. Where their brains had been. She’d melted their minds.

Oh my

Bryce stared at what she had done to the Autumn King’s fist. What had once been his hand. Only melted flesh and bone remained.

Violent

You’re a spoiled, ungrateful brat who never deserved to carry my crown—

King can mind speak, didn't Ruhn want to keep that power a secret? I wonder it this is Run also realizing the king can mind speak

He would try to put his fear behind him. For her, for Midgard.

I love this, this might be my reading jam trope (doing things in spite of the fear)

whiskey-colored eyes,

Cosplay notes

“Fury and June

Remember them! lol

How they’d forgotten to mention the thing that had literally shredded apart Ithan’s life was beyond him, but he didn’t dwell on it.

Lmao

How he and Hypaxia had attempted to raise Sigrid. And now the Fendyr heir was a Reaper.

I had forgotten what Ithan did so a refresher for me too! oops

“Look,” Bryce said, and the gentleness in her tone almost killed him. She blew out a long breath. “An alternate Fendyr heir would have been amazing. But …” Ithan lowered his hands from his face. “But what?” Hunt’s eyes flashed at Ithan’s snarl. But Bryce didn’t back down as she said, “We have bigger problems right now. And time isn’t our ally.”

Deal with the consequences, Ithan. you can't change it

Maybe at some point, he’d stop leaving a trail of absolute destruction in his wake.

Aww :(

“They kept cutting off his wings every time they tried to heal. He lost so much blood in the end that he didn’t make it.”

Yeesh, more baxian backstory though

“The rest of you struck out completely.”

Cackling at everyone knowing the three musketeers aren't very effective at doing their tasks HA. Let's hope they don't screw up with Isaiah and Naomi

Tharion paled. “Legs, I’d love to do that, but she’ll kill me.”

Everyone is putting their lives on the line buddy

I want to ride you, she whispered into his mind, and slipped her hand from his to palm him through his pants.

Mind speak secret sexiness when surrounded by so many people is amaxing, love it

“Please don’t fuck right next to us,” Flynn muttered from a few feet away.

HA

He was a glorified water boy. He’d never hear the end of it from his sunball buddies.

THE SUNBALL BUDDIES

A slender brown hand touched Bryce’s wrist. “B—you okay?”

Juniper looks note

“Danika didn’t tell us a lot of stuff,”

On a reread I want to make a lost of everything Daniel didn't say to bryce

Popped it free of the case, revealing the photograph she’d tucked in there of them. Of how it had been when there were four.

Friendship photo case!!

Ember hugged her back, content to be there—to hold her daughter for one moment longer. This was what really mattered in the end.

So sweet

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

Someone please wipe his memory he needs to let go of sunball

And that smell, of lavender and eucalyptus … Hypaxia was kneeling over him, breathing hard. “Ithan—”

Another candle

He could fucking summon snow. The magic sang in him, an old and strange melody.

Frosty wolf magic

He and his mate would recover, but Ember and Randall, with their human blood …

Why exactly Did we bring the humans along

“I want them to know the truth.” “And what truth is that?” Ithan straightened from where he’d been bent over the crate. “The truth of what I did to Sigrid. That Sigrid exists, I guess, even if she is a Reaper. That—” “So it’s about you easing your guilty conscience.” Ithan cut her a look. “I want them to know what happened. That yeah, Sigrid is a Reaper, and I totally failed at trying to undo that, but … they do technically have an alternative to Sabine—even if it’s a half-life.

It's giving Hamilton writing about his cheating scandal in the newspaper to make sure people knew he wasn't a thief

“Danika Fendyr would have skewered all of you to the front gates of the Den for how you treated Quinlan.”

She's a GREAT WOLF

Her voice was heavy, resigned. “Be careful, pup.”

after she reminded him that he's abandoning his guard duties, she must be thinking "he can't help.but do what he thinks is right

Bryce grabbed Randall and said, “Surprise: I can teleport. Don’t barf.”

Lol

Ithan pivoted, carefully keeping Amelie in his sights as he surveyed the approaching Prime Apparent. A step behind her, emerging from the shadows, strode Sigrid and the Astronomer.

Sigrid with Sabine!! ithan spent All this time asking whether he could Bring her back and not if he should

to again part with my daughter-of-the-heart, but for your benefit, I shall. Sigrid is henceforth a part of your Den—a true wolf.”

Oh please

“Ithan Holstrom is my heir.”

Let the war begin between wolves

“For too long I’ve left you unchecked.” “I’ve kept our people, this city safe—” “You are hereby stripped of your title, your rank, and your authority.”

Get her good

Sigrid moved. Ithan couldn’t contain his cry of dismay as she leapt onto her grandfather’s body and pressed her mouth to his withered lips. She inhaled deeply. Light flared up through the Prime’s mouth, illumining his hollowed cheeks, and then Sigrid was breathing it in, drinking it. His soul, his firstlight— She cocked her head back and swallowed that light, his essence. Her skin gleamed as the light passed down the column of her throat, inch by inch.

Drink up buttercup! blegh

And shattered the Fendyr sword between his teeth.

NICE

Sabine stared down at the seven shards the Fendyr sword had broken into, then lifted her furious gaze to Ithan. Ithan shifted back into his humanoid body with a near-instant flash. “It’s just a piece of steel,”

"what like it's hard?" energy there ithan , love it

Sigrid, either from spite or lost to her hunger, left the old man no time to scream as she leapt upon him and fitted her mouth against his.

You don't have to be dead to be attacked??

Ahead, Ruhn saw that they were approaching a dented metal door marked Do Not Enter. “Now, that’s practically an invitation,” he said, earning a laugh from Lidia as he kicked in the door.

Cutee

“And make it speedy, friend.”

Chastising Sathia for being polite and friendly but then calling them a friend!! adorable

“Considering she’s barely up to my chest,” Tharion said dryly, “I don’t think she’d make much of a shield.”

A sathia tharion looks note

Sathia’s chin didn’t lower. “She remembered how Tharion and your people so bravely and selflessly carried innocents down here to safety during the attack this spring.”

Can't believe Sathia has been here for less than ten minutes and she's already doing Tharion's job better. SJM writes women for women

“Is that a Prince of Hel?” Ember whispered from a few steps behind Bryce, her teeth clacking with cold. “Does she look like a prince?” Randall hissed back,

HA

“I’m sorry,” Tharion burst out. “I am sorry that I misled you, and slept with you, and realized too late that I had gone too far. I’m sorry I strung you along for years—I didn’t know how to talk to you, or be an adult, and I’m sorry. It wasn’t right of me, and it was immature, and I hate that I did that to you, to anyone.”

thank you for character development

“I will divorce my wife” who will not be able to marry someone else?? Which you knew at the start?? I guess it’s sacrifices on both ends but cmon

“I no longer wish my daughter to be tied to the likes of you, in truth or in promise. As far as marriage between you is concerned, it shall never happen.”

Keep him away from your daughter since he will leave at the first sign of another woman

“You are a true mother,” he said, and grabbed her hand, turning her to face him. “Lidia, you made an impossible choice—you decided to protect your children, even if it meant you wouldn’t see them grow up. Fuck, if that doesn’t make you a true mother, then I don’t know what does.”

Yes Ruhn!!

“What, your girlfriend didn’t like that you’re a two-faced snake?” Hunt said.

Oop

Hunt and I have already killed two Archangels. Don’t make us kill you, too.”

Let's go Bryce and Hunt!!

“So,” Jesiba said, drumming her fingers on her desk, “the pup goes to pitch a deworming medicine to a bunch of wolves and comes home Prime.”

She is so funny. Even when Ithan was Telling her his plan she wouldn't even look up from her laptop