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fight and struggle against their hold, but I’m like a small child fighting
“Help her!” I roar. “Lor! Lor! I love you!”
Why doesn’t he say that HE’S NOT Herric?
I could fry them all where they stand, and he knows it.
He also knows you’re too much of a coward to do it. He’s betting on the fact that you already hurt and killed people at the palace.
but something about the sight never failed to move him.
NEVER failed? He doesn’t seem the type to look up every night over hundreds of years and be moved by the lights. How could he have that type of feeling at all, and yet still not feel something over time toward his own flesh and blood?
I huddle against a log hidden in the trees,
A tree trunk or tree branch? Why would a LOG be in a tree, and if there is a part of a broken or cut piece of a tree, why would she huddle against something so unstable? If it’s hidden in the trees, how did she find it?
OR, does the author mean she’s lying on the ground huddled close to a broken branch?
wonder if there’s some way to start a fire, but I’m too cold to move.
How is she holding onto four arks while nodding off in a tree?
I cling to him like I’m falling,
“What did you mean that killing me might have made things more complicated?”
Tell him you healed him, first. Before Zerra got you.
They said something about me being a queen without a queendom.”
But she has Heart, and it’s coming back to life.
“Thank Zerra,” Amya says, throwing her arms around me. “I thought he was finally going to finish you.”
They all need to learn to stop saying that bitch’s name or thinking it!
“We’ll explain everything after,” I say. “Meet us at the town gate after this dies down.”
And DO NOT use the name of the goddess! How hard is that to add to what he just said?
for him that fateful day a century ago. “But this is a warning, Gabe. You can’t keep ignoring them much longer.”
They aren’t being ignored, but they are proving their lack of humanity and sensibility by not taking into account what is going on.
Like they’ve been chewed up and spit back out, their clothes torn and all in need of a bath
Just because someone has power doesn’t mean they have to use it.”
“Just because someone has power doesn’t mean they have to use it.”
She’d thrown in her lot with the wrong sorts of people. Gangsters who prowled the underground lairs of Tor, dealing in illegal trades of arcturite while also indulging in gambling and the skin trade, all of it conducted outside the confines of the law.
Arcturite is a vile thing. She created her own downfall.
always as big as the sea. Even when you seemed intent on making foolish decisions, you’d always find a way to come back from them.” I can’t help the tears that continue to fall. They come in coursing, endless waves, channeling every moment that I’ve missed this woman with every piece of my heart. She wraps me in her arms as I cry and cry, giving everything to my mother,
This is all very touching and wonderful for Lor, but could we please get moving with the story? This book is slowly going nowhere and is becoming painful to keep reading.
“Amara confirms it must be a king, a queen, or a Primary. Only they will have the strength to act as the conduit for the Artefacts.
Then let it be Tyr. He’s already a jellybean head.
Willow asks, crestfallen at the prospect. “But you love each other.”
What does that have to do with anything? Willow’s statement makes as much sense as saying, “but chickens have feathers.”
Tristan’s jaw hardens. We don’t see eye to eye on much, but his sister’s safety is one area we agree on. “So we’ll go see her,” Lor says to me, “and then figure out what we need to do before we go after your father.” She waits for my confirmation, and I reluctantly nod. “And we also need to reach out to the other realms and convince them to destroy their arks,” I say, amplifying the tension in the room. I’m not sure if they’ll listen to us, but we have to make them see this is important for all of them. Maybe the only positive working for us is that there isn’t an Aurora ark to destroy and we
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Blah, blah, blah, blah…get on with the forward momentum! Nothing is happening for too long. Learning information is not the same as something happening.
I sigh and roll back, staring up at the ceiling. After relaying everything I’d seen and learned, thanks to my mother, I didn’t miss the expressions on Tristan’s and Willow’s faces when they realized what had happened and how much they wished they could have seen her too.
We have already been through all of this. Move on to some action! The author is dragging out this story. That tells me she probably could have wrapped it up within three books instead of four.
The land splits apart like it’s been shattered through its heart,
apparently at a loss for what to do. We push past, knowing there isn’t much we can do for them now, and emerge outside in the courtyard, where we find Gabriel, Mael, and Hylene already doling out orders.
They better have her crown and the arks in a satchel with them!
and then when I was finally released,
She wasn’t released and the thrown into a contest. She was released for the contest.
“I’m sorry,” I say, but Gabriel waves me off. “If you really think this is a part of some
The second line of dialogue is not the same speaker and should be a separate paragraph.
She shakes her head. “I feel weird.” “Weird how?” I ask. “I don’t know. I’m sure it’s nothing. I shouldn’t have skipped lunch—I’m a bit lightheaded.”
Is she going to end up having magic, finally?
petals spreading out like they’re greeting the morning sun.
roses. They float across the room, tumbling down like rain.
Herric chuckled again, the sound like chains dragging over stone.
But it’s like we’re moving a million miles a minute, and there hasn’t been time.
“Cyan’s answer is a skeptical look.
ERROR
There should not be any quotation marks at the beginning of this sentence.
“Do you have any idea why Lor is immune to the effects of arcturite?” Nadir asks, and yet again, I sense everyone’s shock.
Not the kind his dad has. It has the virulence in it.
“You’re alliance with my father? Does this create problems for you?” Nadir asks,
ERROR
The word should be “your” not the contraction of the words “you are.” The sentence makes no sense when the full words are used, which means it’s supposed to be the possessive form of the homonym
she’s never been one to get in the middle of anyone’s affairs, even to her own detriment,
ERROR
The sentence should read “…especially to her own detriment.” Using the words it has now makes it seem as if the word “detriment” is a good thing, which it is not. The wording makes detriment seem interchangeable with “reward” or “benefit” as in “…even to her own benefit,” which again is not what he’s saying or should be saying.
He approaches her with his hands in front of him like he’s trying to trick a wild animal into trusting him.
If she’d stayed with him, she would never have found herself wrapped up with the wrong sorts of people. She would be here, standing at his side.
If he’d had someone looking over her, perhaps her death could have been prevented.
She is here. With me.
He’s probably lying.
The girl. The ark. You know what I want. Open the Underworld and let me out.
Anyone desperate to be released from their imprisonment cannot be trusted. Herric told Rion from the start that he had become trapped there from digging too deeply. He wants out.
“We made this bed. We allowed all of this to happen. We lived in luxury while we forced living, breathing beings to suffer
Gabe was bound. He had no choice.
it’ll be tough not to harbor a grudge.
A grudge over what? She came through. Become allies.
can’t get the image of the Heart Castle collapsing out of my head. Logically, I know a building doesn’t matter. I understand it was just mortar and stones and not truly the legacy we left behind.
Did they or have they told the people still in settlements there that the queen is returning? They’ve had faith she would and deserve to know a plan is being worked out.
running towards this place for almost three hundred years
With his jaw set, he stalks to the end of the room and starts sorting through the papers on his father’s desk.
Is he going to see his mom?
She could have lived out her days in Aphelion as a High Fae queen, perhaps not a very good one, but at least she would have been home. And then Herric betrayed her.
This book makes less and less sense, sometimes. Herric’s betrayal has nothing to do with her being locked up as a goddess.
“We have to find him, and we have to get the ark. One of us will die, and I’m going to make damn sure it isn’t me, but I won’t live under his shadow anymore. This ends
Who says this?
the fatal words, and they sit heavy in my chest like my heart has turned to iron.
remember forever. We were happy. With her, I was happy, even if it was so brief.
But he was supposedly full grown when his sister was born. There must be more he remembers.
Thanks to the fact I’m wearing nothing under my nightgown,
And the fact that it’s a dream, right?
voice no longer a whisper in his mind but solid and corporeal, echoing off the walls like nails penetrating steel. Rion
gawkers who continued to stare at him like he was a fresh steak tossed into a lion pit.
I don’t wait for him to answer as I drop everything but the dagger and sprint back the way I came.
Does she know if the pack has rope? I doubt she checked.
