River of Shadows (Underworld Gods, #1)

by Karina Halle

Maybe that’s how you get through death, by telling yourself your father will pick up the phone, and that if he doesn’t that he’ll call you back soon, and so in the back of your mind, at the back of your heart, you’re just waiting. Waiting for them to return and for life to go back to normal again. The idea that they’re never coming back is…it’s more than unbearable. It goes against everything you’ve ever known.

As part of the dead dad club, this was triggering to read lol

My favorite food is ramen, I don’t have a cat but I love cat videos, I wear all the sweaters as soon as September hits even when it’s eighty degrees outside, and I don’t care if people know I love pumpkin spice lattes. I watch anime but I watch anime porn more, and I scroll through TikTok to help me fall asleep at night, even though it makes me buy candles and crystals and crochet supplies that I never use. I am not complex. I am what they call a basic bitch. I just happen to be a basic bitch in the Realm of the Dead. And maybe that’s what you find fascinating.” Death stops and stares down at me and I can almost feel him thinking, a pause hanging between us as he takes in all my babbling. Finally, he says, “Basic bitch?” I wave my free hand dismissively. “It just means I’m not special. I’m no different than anyone else. Whatever complexity you see in me, it’s not there. I’m just…foreign to you.” “Ah,” he says, slowly nodding. “I thought you meant you were not very adept at being a bitch, and I was going to say otherwise.”

BAaahahhaha omg I love

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