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April 7 - April 10, 2025
BEFORE
Uggh I do NOT want to read this
CHAPTER 1
Quite literally none of this book makes any sense and I'm honestly so done
CHAPTER 3
Uggh why are these chapters so long??? This one is literally 20 minutes
gullible
Erm gullible is written on the ceiling
I might not be a threat, but I could become one.
“Saints, Alina. I hope you weren’t looking to me to be the voice of reason. I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.”
“Everyone needs a hobby.” “I thought yours was preening.” “Two hobbies.”
“He laughs too much.” “There are worse traits.”
He took her face in his hands and kissed her. Genya went rigid. I thought she’d push him away. But then she threw her arms around him and kissed him back. Emphatically.
At the stairs, I grabbed Genya’s hand. “What did you whisper?” I asked quietly. “To the King.” She watched the others move up the steps, then said, “Na razrusha’ya. E’ya razrushost.” I am not ruined. I am ruination.
“Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.
“If you’re going to jump, at least give me time to compose a ballad in your honor,” said Nikolai. I turned to see him striding onto the terrace, blond hair shining. He’d thrown on an elegant greatcoat of army drab, marked with the golden double eagle. “Something with lots of sad fiddle and a verse devoted to your love of herring.”
what’s the rush? Is it my cologne?” “You don’t wear cologne.” “I have such a naturally delightful scent that it seems like overkill. But if you have a penchant for it, I’ll start.”
Her mother kept her to the house and the fields around it. You see, this little girl had started to show her power early,
It's her
She’d dismissed her sister as otkazat’sya—but what if she simply hadn’t shown her power yet? She was Morozova’s child too. What if her gift was unique, like Baghra’s?
What if it was her mom?
Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.
crowd.
So far the most interesting chapter
But Ana Kuya used to tell me that hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.
CHAPTER 16
Ugggh 30% left!
that.
Hallelujah praise the Lord I have finished this series!!
