Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)

by Alex Aster

Her death had been the first of many. And the fault was Isla’s.

Five hundred years before, each of the six realms—Wildling, Starling, Moonling, Skyling, Sunling, and Nightshade—were cursed, their strengths turned into their own personal poisons. Each curse was uniquely wicked.

Wildlings’ was twofold. They were cursed to kill anyone they fell in love with—and to live exclusively on human hearts. They turned into terrifyingly beautiful monsters with the wicked power to seduce with a single look.

I like how its a realm of basically all female warriors

The trees above bloomed cherries and berries and bloodred blossoms,

Beautiful sound devices

sneaked

Snuck

“The first rule. A ruler may not assassinate or attempt to assassinate another ruler until after the fiftieth day.”

“And, when pairs are decided on the twenty-fifth day, a ruler may not assassinate their partner.”

“The second rule. All rulers must attend and participate in every Centennial event.”

“The third rule. To participate, no ruler can have an heir.”

sneaked

Whyyy

The king was dying.

It kind of makes me mad how much this is overused

sneaked

NOOO

All Lightlark would.

All OF!! There were definitely a couple other places like this that weren't WRONG per say, but I would have changed a word to make it sound better. Like "Shouldn't" to "Shall."

hidden library.”

This is making me so mad bc for like half the book I have been thinking that her starstick is the key to the Wildling vault which may be the library!! Update: I'm wrong but whatever. They mention stuff and then don't mention them at all again for the entire book and then wrap them up in the last few chapters. This pacing was not good.

Starling must be the one to die.”

Are they forgetting the FREAKING DEAL she made that protects both her and ANOTHER REALM OF HER CHOOSING ????

They couldn’t walk into Carmel together.

Um but if Oro and Cleo are partners then shouldn't they be too?! #plotholes

And something about it all was so familiar, like falling asleep, or humming to the rain, or breathing. Like she had already done it all a thousand times in her dreams.

“Why?” “I have no idea. He must be planning something.”

You cannot DO THIS. It goes on a different line!!!!

shined

I really don't like how the author does this: shined, dived, sneaked

Chloe Gong,

Adam Silvera,

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