House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3)
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Read between February 3 - March 27, 2024
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“You arrived here intentionally.” “Guilty as charged,”
Ginny
Oh she is smart
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“I will kill you and your bitch mother for this.” She motioned him further inside. “I’ll pencil you in for tomorrow.”
Ginny
Oh she is hilrious and evil. In a good way
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And for Bryce, home was—and always would be—
Ginny
Okay fine maybe they do love each other...
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And then a boy, golden-haired and blue-eyed, looked away from his teacher and toward the window. The kid wasn’t mer. The ground slid out from under Ruhn. The boy had Lidia’s face. Her coloring.
Ginny
No shit she has a brother!
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“They’re not my brothers,” Lidia whispered. Her fingers curled on the glass. “They’re my sons.”
Ginny
What the SHIT
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He just removed invisible flecks of lint from his aquatic suit
Ginny
What is with sjm and invisible lint
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Please put the twins first today.
Ginny
Omg they are twins
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“I’ll contact Brann and Actaeon’s adoptive parents to see if they can come in, too.”
Ginny
Oh she adopted them out too. This hurts. WOW this hurts. I love Lydia even more
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“You hand him over,” a female voice drawled from the open doorway, “and you’ll have a third queen pissed at you.”
Ginny
I don’t know how many times I have said HOLY SHIT. But HOLY SHIT! she has Arlin timing!! Seriously they would burn the world together
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Bryce didn’t miss a beat. “I’m Bryce Danaan, Queen of the Valbaran Fae.”
Ginny
Oh she’s owning it!!
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“Because I’ve got the Autumn King’s dirty little secrets.”
Ginny
She’s so sassy I love her
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So her tone was bland, empty, when she spoke. As hollow and soulless as it had been all these years with the Asteri, with Pollux. “Tell me what I must do.”
Ginny
I feel so terrible for her. Tbis is so heartbreking
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“Those sleazeballs can wriggle their way into anything. The ancient ones were no different,” Bryce said.
Ginny
lol sleezeballs.
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out. The arching prow had been carved like a stag’s head, twin lanterns hanging from the branches of its mighty horns. And then the stag itself spoke, eyes glowing, its mouth moving as a deep male voice came from inside it—no doubt broadcast from a king miles away. “Welcome, Bryce Danaan. I’ve been expecting you.”
Ginny
I’m sorry… A STAG!!
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Tharion studied the male’s broad, callused hand, its golden skin flecked with sea spray.
Ginny
He’s about to either never see him again or do something stupid
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“Now you’ve done it,”
Ginny
I legit choked on a fry reading this whole conversation
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It took Hypaxia seven hours, seven minutes, and seven seconds to raise Sigrid.
Ginny
There goes that seven hard
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Ginny
Plese dont tell me tbryfucked themselves into perynthian.... Dear lordy
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Ruhn’s inviting, reassuring smell,
Ginny
Oh thank goodness I thought she was not liking him. It’s been a while since her POV. They just need to get over it and tell each other
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Hunt could have sworn the Starsword hummed faintly, as if in answer.
Ginny
Ooohhhhh the quote. The quote!!!
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Ruhn had just decided that he really should go see where his friends had disappeared to all day,
Ginny
No shit Sherlock
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“Now I don’t fucking care who you are, so long as you’re mine.”
Ginny
Oh HELL YES
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She hadn’t told him, which meant his mate probably no longer trusted him, and he had no idea how to start fixing that—
Ginny
Dude stop overthinking it and jump into the dang river!! You never would have survived with Aelin as a mate…
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“The black crowns were collars in Hel,”
Ginny
I wonder if this is like the collars in TOG
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“I’m sick and tired of people using girl as an insult.”
Ginny
Oooooooooohhhhhhhh
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It was the Starsword. And it was Ruhn wielding it, standing behind him.
Ginny
Hell yes!!! He deserved that final blow
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The line will end with me, you fucking prick, Ruhn said into his father’s mind, because I yield my crown, my title, to the queen.
Ginny
Ahhhhhhhhhhh
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And she saw it, for a glimmering heartbeat. Not a world divided into Houses … but a world united.
Ginny
Her cadre. Inner court. Her family
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“Bright,” she murmured. Then looked at Athalar, scanning his face. “Light it up,” she whispered. As if it was the answer to everything. Bright. Light. Light it up.
Ginny
Im not crying. You are crying...
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Baxian smirked, though. “Who said you’re in charge?” Hunt rolled his eyes. “My wife, that’s who.”
Ginny
I laughed so hard
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“Danika didn’t tell us a lot of stuff,” Bryce said with equal softness.
Ginny
Aint that the start....
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Ember hugged her back, content to be there—to hold her daughter for one moment longer. This was what really mattered in the end.
Ginny
Everythings so happy and final currently. Sjm is going to ruin it isint she
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Ithan held out his hand and willed the thing under his skin to come forward. Ice and snow appeared in his palm. They did not melt against his skin.
Ginny
Holy shiz the shifters ARE fae like in tog with other magic that was supresses
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“Why is this traitor still alive?”
Ginny
Maybe because hes an alfa....
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her
Ginny
I feel like i have to correct theis. He
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“I offered to make you Alpha once, Ithan Holstrom. I now offer to make you Prime. Don’t walk away from it.”
Ginny
Ahbhhhhhhhhhhhh
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The next, Sabine had snatched it from her father’s hands. She plunged it through the Prime’s ancient face.
Ginny
Holy shit
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Sabine stared down at the seven shards the Fendyr sword had broken into, then lifted her furious gaze to Ithan.
Ginny
Seven shards.... Dang. This book
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Make your brother proud. And as his howl finished echoing, he could have sworn he heard a male wolf’s cry float up from the Bone Quarter itself.
Ginny
I shed a tear
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He snorted. “It’s my first mission with my girlfriend. I want to impress her.”
Ginny
Wby does this give me percy jackson vibes and i LOVE it
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“Is that a Prince of Hel?”
Ginny
Lets be real. Nes could kick some hel prince butt
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Ginny
Ah dang its all coming together
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“I’ve got you, sweetheart,” she whispered to him, and his eyes flickered in recognition. He’d said the same thing to her once—that day she’d had the kristallos venom removed from her leg. He squeezed her hand back. “Let’s light it up.”
Ginny
Again im crying
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The friends they’d made were what mattered in the end. Not the enemies. Through love, all is possible.
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But Ember continued, looking only at Nesta, “I am glad of one thing: that I was able to meet you.”
Ginny
Oh now i need this story!
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Cassian grinned, and, well, Bryce could see why Nesta might be into a male who looked like that.
Ginny
Nes and us all
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“You’ll find your way,”
Ginny
What does tbis mean sjm
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“I think that eight-pointed star was tattooed on you for a reason. Take that sword and go figure out why.”
Ginny
Oh most definitely opens for the next acotar book