Status Updates From Blood And Gold (The Vampire...

“Some vague and heated thoughts formed in my mind to do with Amadeo and the brilliance of this gold and of how angry I was, and of how I seethed for vengeance against Santino. I saw ikons with their halos of gold; I saw the coin of the Talamasca made of gold. I saw the golden florins of Florence.
[…]
Gold and gold and gold.
And Amadeo had chosen ashes!”

Controlling evil dad Marius. exactly what I ordered

I’m actually enjoying this book a lot more than others in the series!
I’ve found it a lot more interesting from the beginning, compared to Rice’s other works which tend to be pretty tedious and slow to begin with.
Marius, despite being a shitty character, is actually quite an enjoyable POV in terms of what he has seen and who he has known.

I’m so glad we’re finally learning what happened to Bianca. The North remembers how long the question went unanswered