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Braveheart time! Fuck yo couch, Edward!

These popes are dropping like flies. No one man should have all that power when the church can't keep him alive long enough to sign a damn treaty.

Plantagenets are the reason the middle ages get a bad rap. It's the truth.

Never, ever forgive a father who would arrange for you to be Lady Troutt for the rest of your life. No, ma'am, that is a hatchet you never bury.

It is a testament to my overeducation that the rank historical inaccuracies continue to bother me.

There are some books you read for no better reason than that the series HAS TO END.

Holmes! Watson! Boarding schools! A body count!

"Please step away from my cow."

There is an inverse ratio between the quality of Bowen's covers and the quality of her books. Her publishers might want to look into that...

We will be having WORDS about how this was done...

The fact that this series is almost over makes me want to cry into my toasted cheese.

I am 200% invested in these guys' domestic felicity. Also, Padeen! Padeeeeeen.

"Jack, at this stage I implore you not to be witty."

EXCUSE ME THAT IS NOT HOW PLAN B WORKS WHAT THE FUCK.

One of my favorite things about these novels is how everyone considers the Midshipmen 100% disposable. Does it look dangerous? Let's it try it first with a few young gentlemen and see if they survive.

Oh Gd she's brought the abused animals into this. Fuck you, Penny.

What's that? You're losing naval engagements with the rag-tag volunteer nation in need of a shower? THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU UP AGAINST THE RUFFIANS. *blares the Star-Spangled Banner while marching to Ft. McHenry, middle fingers raised*

"She was genetically designed to be eaten first." -the title of my autobiography

"It was an allusion to the Bible!" -my new favorite line

This damn book. I'm never going to sleep tonight. Penny, you're going on the list.

Noooooooo! How? Why?!?!

This book is amazing. Imagine if Anne McCaffrey wrote 1492. Or Dr. Pol wrote How to Breed Your Captain. I'm in love all over again.

Chapter the Ninth: in which Laurence tries, and fails, to justify the Purity Myth to dragons.

And that, kids, is why you need to take orienteering.