Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)

by Sara Raasch

No matter how many times he puts me on the ground, he never looks anything but handsome.

How are these related.

He winked at me and pulled up his best smile, a rare treat that made my chest cold with happiness.

What. Have you ever felt the human emotion happiness before.

I stop. “They’ll need everyone. I’ll go too.” Sir looks at me like he forgot I’d be here. He frowns, shakes his head. “Not now. Mather, Finn, I want you ready to leave in fifteen minutes. Go.”

Why are y'all insisting on risking the future king???

Winter’s capital, Jannuari,

No

whip to her. “Just because you’d rather be patching dresses doesn’t mean all women should want that.”

Shit the fuck up

Autumn’s capital, Oktuber,

NO.

“Then why do we have to hide our hair?” Alysson’s hand went to her own hair, wrapped up in a blue length of fabric. In retrospect, hiding our white hair didn’t do much to keep people from realizing who we were—if

Yeah because you're fucking ghost white dummy one look at your blindingly white face and everyone will know lmfao

arms are too rubbery from my windowsill grab to throw my chakram, so I settle for the curved knives hidden in my boots.

Throwing is out but sustained grip and knife fighting is on???? Ok

And even though I’m not Cordellan and his conduit can’t actually affect me,

.....how does it know. Is it by birth? Will it affect her when she marries the prince? Is it just when u live there? For how long?

I loop my chakram into its usual place of honor between my shoulder blades

Why there that's an awful place

winds the ax around. Winding and winding, tighter and tighter, until all of it breaks in a single thrust

Wtf does this mean

male-blooded.

How does this work w trans or nb ppl?????

“Paisly’s female-blooded shield,” Mather says, almost to himself, a soft hum of noise as his eyes travel the map. “Ventralli’s male-blooded crown. Yakim’s female-blooded ax, Summer’s male-blooded cuff, Autumn’s female-blooded ring, Spring’s male-blooded staff, and—”

How do the gendering of these artifacts affect society?? Are there matriarchies? Does the type of conduit influence values like war vs Art for an ax and locket?

Theron flips backward and slaps Mather’s blow aside—Mather

Shut up this isn't xena

I’m not sure what I fear more: Sir’s wrath or Angra’s.

The fuck can he do. You're gonna be queen of another country he's not ur dad shut up

genders.

Again I guess trans people don't exist in this world at all lmfao

As soon as those thoughts fill my mind, a dam breaks and need floods me, cooling my cheeks, tingling my limbs. I fought so long and so hard to be me, to be Meira in all of this, to help Winter in my own unique way. But this isn’t about what I want, it’s about what Winter needs. It’s always been about what Winter needs.

We fucking got this chapters ago. This isn't new information and she's not doing anything new with it