Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)

by Devney Perry

My sister wasn’t great at giving hugs, but I hugged her anyway. For every hug that I’d been denied, I always tried to give Mae two.

A King cannot kill his Sparrow, and a Sparrow cannot kill her King, either directly or indirectly, without death befalling them both.

He frowned, looking like he wanted the details of that injury.

The moment the lock was between his fingers, his nostrils flared, like he could smell the dye. With a sneer, he dropped it and wiped his fingers on his pants.

I might be the woman wearing the crown, but Jocelyn was the one with the riches, wasn’t she?

My last name, my home, my crown, and my family were gone, but damn it, I wasn’t going to lose my clothes, too. I was a woman who liked dresses, even if they were gray.

classic fantasy fmc!!

Was I happy with this situation? No. But if nothing else, maybe I could find joy in this journey.

The Guardian dropped to a crouch, the knife dangling from his fingertips. “It is unwise to threaten me.”

I have a feeling he’s actually the prince and not The Guardian

“Zavier likes to share.”

Wait are they the same person? We hardly see them together

The Guardian’s sword cut through the space between us with a whoosh. That blade in his hand was a streak of silver, a bolt of lightning, wielded with only a roll of his wrist. “Ready?”

I love a good training sesh!!!

I’d always been on my own. The only person I could count on to take my side, to see me, was me.

“I take it my son is not here,”

its actually the guardian isnt it

Would I fail? Probably. But maybe, just maybe, I’d find a way. For myself. And for the next princess who wanted a choice. I was more capable than my family expected. I was more than I’d let myself believe.

“I didn’t ask to be married to a stranger and shipped across the continent. I didn’t ask to come to Turah. I didn’t ask to be jailed in a wilderness treehouse. Those were decisions made for me by the whims of men. So you can threaten to take away my freedom all you want, but I will fight you. Every step of the way. Until my last breath. And I will not go quietly into a cage.”

I was going to miss. Without a doubt, I was going to miss. But what if I didn’t?

“I hate you.” It should have broken the moment. It should have pissed him off. But he stared at me like I was something to behold. Something to cherish. Something to protect. “Yes, you do,” he said. “Don’t forget.” “Never.”

“You’re really keeping the cat?” Ransom asked. “Did you think I’d change my mind?” “Honestly? Yes.” I smiled at Faze. “I guess I have a soft spot for monsters.” Maybe they were all more than they seemed. Or maybe this little tarkin would kill me in my sleep.

If anyone did find my journal, they’d find drawings of monsters and treehouses and mountains and towns, each bordered with a few embellishments that looked like nothing on their own. But put together, lined up and overlapped just right, it was Turah.

genius girl

“Gods save the men who make you mad.”

“You are the crown prince. It was all a ruse.”

I KNEW IT!!!!!!

“You are mine, Odessa.” It was a growl, more animal than human. And the shiver that cascaded down my spine might as well have been my own blades, cleaving me in two. Mine. It was everything I’d wanted to hear for weeks. It was the lie that shattered my heart.

I wasn’t sure who moved first. One moment, my heels were on the ground. The next, a hundred butterflies took flight in my belly, lifting me off my toes, reaching for him as he crushed his mouth to mine. The world around us began to spin, fading into streaks of light and dark, until the colors blended together in a swirl of gray and white and black. Until the only color that remained was green. It was like that first breath after jumping off a cliff, plunging into the ocean, and breaking free from the surface to fill my lungs. It was like being remade.

“I have questions,” I said. “Of course you do.”

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I wanted a thousand nights to sleep with the beat of his heart in my ear.

“It’s a shock you even have blood in your veins for all the godsdamn blood oaths you’ve sworn.

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