Reign of Stars and Fire (The Broken Kingdoms, #8)

by L.J. Andrews

The only one who frightened me as much as my own mother was my wife.

period

“Livia is destined to change worlds, why not get her started on her adventures early?”

🥹

the darkness is only defeated if the final truth is found.”

“For now, you may know me as Wraith. A phantom of fate.”

👀

“Makers of shadows and mountains, come them all. Patience you need when darkness feeds, lest all thrones fall.” Danna hummed. “A king will rise, but only to his heart’s cries.”

“The singing, that’s new, but only because I had a thought to try it, almost like a memory. It wasn’t some spirit in the dark telling me how it was done, got it?

uh huh

“But I think this dark battle lord will hurt them in a strange way. It feels almost like he . . . needs them to step on the land before we can fight back, like they are part of his victory.”

WELL FUCK

I bent over her growing belly and pressed a kiss in the middle.

I AM INCONSOLABLE

We hadn’t anticipated he’d sense two. They were clearly made of us—already wreaking a bit of havoc.

MY BABIES

I did not show much of what my heart felt to anyone beyond my wife, but there was a delirious kind of love and devotion to two small things I’d never even met.

Stop

“I’ll read it.” Malin appeared at my side and gave me a slight smile as she threaded her fingers through mine. Sly. Beautiful. Mine.

They kill me

“Get some sleep,” I said. “Tomorrow, we prepare to leave for the South.”

Hell yeah, were getting the band back together

“Never think such a thing again, understand me? You are my wife. To me that means you are my every bleeding sunrise.”

“The Otherworld will not touch me until I taste you in the daylight again.”

Ok bars

“We’re crossing too near the Chasm for comfort,

THE CHASM MENTIONED

“You’d let her speak, Ari?” Wraith asked. “To silence her would rid me of the sweetest sound.”

“You like roses, right? Your admirer sends them?” “I never liked them until recently. Now, gods it feels important to me.”

“Riot Ode was no fool. He knew his world would soon be undone, but he refused to leave folk helpless without a way to access his different magicks. He gave each tale power, and made paths for those fated to rise and stand for this land.”

Until cold, bitter shadows blanketed me in horrid thoughts. “I want to know where you’ve taken my Kryv.” A low, dangerous rasp lifted the hair on my arms. “You play games with the earth, but everyone can break under the pressure of fear.”

OHMYGODOHNYGODOHMYGOD

“The king broke the kingdoms with your father’s guidance. You were always a piece of the new tale.”

i have goosebumps

If I did this, it would unravel every life of everyone I knew. The Ferus royals, likely they’d never meet. Valen Ferus lived long before Elise came into existence. If there were no raids on the Night Folk fae, there would be no curse that would bring them together.

What the FUCK

Whatever she said to the Sun Prince drew a slow, stiff smile to his lips, and for a moment, his pain was forgotten when he whispered, “Tor.”

I need their novella STAT

I would never have found . . . my family. The gilded ropes of Elise’s and Valen’s paths of fate tied together in a glowing knot.

INVISIBLE STRING

Golden eyes took in his surroundings, he looked above him to where the faint cry of the girl’s pleas could be heard. “Mallie!” His voice broke over and over as he banged on the bars, sobbing for his girl.

Cool im sobbing

He curled on the floor of his cell, dug out a wooden rose charm from under his top, and whispered, “Don’t forget me.”

NOLIKE WHAT THE FUCK ISTHAT FOR

The lands are more connected than you’ve realized, and now you have seen that you were the catalyst for uniting them. The Golden King and his Raven Queen were the first song of a new path. The first tale that opened the way for others.”

“Uniting them for what?” A sobering shadow spread over his face. “For the final fight of a broken world.”

Oh shiz

“I have need for you to cease whatever is going on here, wife. I need to see you and touch you, or I will grow rather violent.”

Okay period

“You are my every sunrise,” he breathed against my ear.

“You are my every sunset,” I whispered. “Tell me I’m not dreaming.”

SOBBING

“Then let it take you,” he said dragging his tongue between the cleavage of my chest. “Fall apart, I swear I’ll be there to catch you. Your pleasure is my pleasure.”

Ari let out a growl and flattened his palms on the rock wall behind us, legs spread. He rocked his hips, but before it went further, he pulled my hand away and spun me around.

OHOHO

From the moment I took my first breath, I was destined to have this woman in my arms. We were carved from the same land, even if I lived a world apart.

“Who are you?” My arm draped possessively around Saga. I waited until Calista looked at me before going on. “A child of the Norns? A goddess? Half a god? A true witch? What I know is no one with simple magic could have sent a spectral with the power of Wraith.”

Seated on a ledge, one leg dangled over the side, Kase Eriksson reclined against the wall. One arm held Malin, his wife, to his chest while her hands rested over her swelling middle.

I am weak

“My heart was written for you by the hand of fate. It is always yours no matter what happens.”

Guide her to the first bond and all the songs will be revealed, so a broken kingdom can be healed.

She gripped the hilt of the knife. “When I see him this . . . this time, I’ll tell him I love him.”

OW

“Take vows with me!” She cried, a little sob caught in the sound. “The instant this ends. Take vows with me. I cannot wait another day.” Gunnar fought a smile. “We’re vowed in my mind already.”

Shes so geraldine lol

A ring of fate with the power to open a doorway of shadows and summon folk through like a beacon.

OHH??

“Princess, I . . . I will tell him what a remarkable queen you’ve become.”

I AM CRYING

Elise and Valen sat next to them, the tiny Princess Livia asleep in the crook of Valen’s arm.

Eeeeeeee

Wraith was no child when he led me through my sleep. He was sharp, demanding, and soft about the past in many ways. There was a clear power emanating from him, even as a phantom guide. What if he hadn’t joined from the Otherworld? What if he, like so many others, was hidden by Riot’s curse, waiting for one to find the bond that was missing?

“I hate fate.” Kase shook his head. “Bloodshed and pain could be spared if it would be even the slightest bit clearer.”

Honestly period

When I visited Lump and Tor, I often told them they were dull, then spent the rest of my time chasing Aleksi and watching his eyes light up when I gave him little prophecies of his fated path. Once, I was forced to draw out the simple prophecies as a captive at Ravenspire. Now, I’d do it all day for the young royals if they kept looking at me like I was some kind of bleeding goddess.

MY HEART

From Elise’s and Valen’s girl who seemed to radiate the two opposing worlds they’d united, to the two matching littles from the shadow court in the East. Hells, the twins would be sneakier than their damn parents.

Ehehe

“Mira,” I whispered. I tapped her nose.

OH MY FUCKING GOD

When Mira shrieked after a chirping insect landed on her head, she sprinted off toward the two green-eyed boys laughing and pointing. Until vines and tendrils of grass wrapped around their ankles. Jonas and Sander were yanked to the ground. “Livia!” Jonas flailed about, his squeaky boyish voice echoed over the hillside.

I am so warm and fuzzy reading this

“Yield?” “Never!” he shouted. “I’mma give you so many nightmares, Mira.”

Oh boy

Sing with me, little rose.

Oh my god when i say FERAL