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

by Sarah J. Maas

“Look, I need to see my brother. One last time.”

Remember how poorly all of this dead people stuff has gone?? REMEMBER??

she would resent me for using it for something so … selfish.”

Another reason to stay away from the dead

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

SUNBALL REFERENCES - he better start up a wolf sun ball team and that's how political decisions will be made, winning team makes the rules

seven minutes.”

Holy number in CC

He’d single-handedly destroyed the Fendyr line. Why not destroy Death, too?

Casual

“That’s not possible. I don’t want that burden.” “Too bad. You killed him.”

Jesiba gives no shits I love her

“I’ve got you, sweetheart,”

Awe

“Let’s light it up.”

Light it up!!

“Commando?” Bryce said, choking. Hunt smirked. “All the underwear they gave me on the Depth Charger was too small for this.”

HA

“No matter what happens tomorrow,” she said, breathing hard, “I’ll have this piece of you with me. Strengthening me.”

Here comes the pregnancy trope

He bucked against her first stroke, and was about to start begging when she pushed him back onto the bed. When she climbed over him, straddling him, and that hand around his cock guided him to her entrance.

beg for the powerful female before you Ruhn WOOF WOOF

Ruhn stirred, and Lidia nestled closer to him, breathing in his scent, savoring the strength of his body around hers. And tried not to think about tomorrow.

Crying

“Yes,” Bryce said, and faced Hunt. “The wings were all still there a couple weeks ago—

Book takes place over a few weeks

“Through love, all is possible.”

All is possible!!

She wished Ithan had made it in time with Hypaxia’s antidote. But they couldn’t delay this—not by a single minute.

Ithan ithan ithan, letting down the team bc you were distracted with wold duties

at his smirk of triumph at outwitting them—

Hopefully Aidas thought this through

“We don’t have long until someone comes down here to investigate that gunshot,”

Lidia that wasn't the best option, but she's stressed

She pointed the gun at his head.

At Ruhn?? ma'am

One shot, right to her thigh.

She wasn't rational and I love them being willing to make the sacrifice for the kids

She wanted nothing to do with Ruhn. He’d shot her—he’d shot her, in some male fit of dominance, and it had kept her from her sons. She’d never forgive him—

So fair

bloodline,” and got to her feet. It was Daybright, as Ruhn had seen her in his mind. She’d presented herself—her true self—to him all this time.

that's RAD

“As Danika Fendyr told me we were. Now free of the Asteri’s parasite.”

!!

Lidia held out a finger. And poked the towering pillar that had once been Pollux.

!!! Queen

Lidia turned Mordoc and the two snipers into ashes with a thought. Until all that remained of them was the molten silver from the darts in their collars, pooled on the ground. Another thought, and the pack of dreadwolves, now skidding to a halt in panic, met the same fate.

Everyone has god powers now

In the Cave of Princes, it had taken nearly all her concentration to douse the flames of the Autumn King around her companions. Only Morven had seemed to be surprised—the others hadn’t questioned how the flames had disappeared. There had been too much chaos for anyone to piece it together.

Waaaaa

“We shall build a new world atop their ashes.”

Love love love

Half of him wanted to dump the twins somewhere safe and race to wherever Lidia was, but his mate had asked him to protect the two most precious people in her world. He wouldn’t break a gesture of trust so great. Not for anything.

Good!! great development Ruhn

She was not the scared female she’d been a week ago,

This book happens in a week??

Bryce’s knees buckled, and her head swam. Her power had dissolved into stardust in her veins.

Oh mama

Rather than strike her with his Helfire, he hauled her to him and kissed her.

One last hurrah

At least another one was dead,

How did the other Asteri die??

“So you’d rather die,” Bryce said, “than see any of us freed from you?” “If we are denied our food, then we shall die; there is no purpose to your existence, if not to sustain us. You are chattel.”

Seems they've learned their lesson from other worlds

I believe it all happened for a reason. I believe it wasn’t for nothing. From far away, the words she’d spoken at the Gate the previous spring echoed.

Light it up!

Like the battery she was, she grabbed his power. Sucked it into herself.

YAA

A heartbeat, and then she was yanked in, too. Straight to deep space.

AHH

The friends they’d made were what mattered in the end. Not the enemies. Through love, all is possible.

Its the friends we made along the way that was the real journey

Hypaxia Enador somehow standing beside him, the Bone Crown of the House of Flame and Shadow atop her shining black curls.

Looks note for Hypaxia

“Priestess,” Apollion hissed, and Roga lifted eyes brimming with disdain and disgust to the Prince of the Pit. “Still wondering if I’m going to do anything with those books?” Roga snapped at Apollion. She pointed to Bryce, dead on the ground. “Don’t you think if they had some power, I’d be using it right now to save that girl?” Apollion glowered at her. “You’re a born liar, priestess—”

Backstory for another time

“That Archesian amulet isn’t merely for protection against my books or against demons. It’s a link to Midgard itself.” Bryce glanced down at her chest, the slender gold chain and delicate knot of circles dangling from it.

Description of the amulet

“You’ve got one of the worst self-sacrificing streaks I’ve ever encountered,” Jesiba said. “I had a feeling an intervention might be needed here today.”

Lol

“Does someone, uh, want to put Jesiba’s ashes in a … cup or something?”

Ruhn your timing is impeccable

“We did it,” Hunt said, throat thick. “At last, we did it.

We did it Joe

Bryce Gives Me Magical Orgasms, Literally had messaged him.

Hehe

Where are you?? I’m having separation anxiety! Get back here!!! Another buzz, and she added, After you do whatever you need to, I mean. Like, I’m supportive of you taking space for yourself and doing what has to be done. Another buzz. But also get back here right now. Hunt choked on his laugh. He had everything he needed. Everything he’d ever want. Don’t get your panties in a twist, Quinlan, he answered. I’ll be back soon. Then he added, Actually, do me a favor and take your panties off altogether.

They are so cute

“Oh, Rhys will be fine, Cassian,” Ember said—in the Fae’s language.

The power of a mother has no bounds, where is that bonus scene of ember meeting Rhys

“Spoken like a true sunball captain,” Dec teased.

pshhh lol

Ithan said, “Yeah.” He let the word settle, and for a moment he felt it—that urge to set foot on the field, to grip that ball in his hands. A glimmer, and it was gone, but … after years of nothing, he felt it. Wanted it. So Ithan grinned and added, “I am.”

What?? what?? lol