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i’m so bored omg there’s no plot!!!!! pleeeease gay people you need to stop disappointing me!!!!! 😭💔

“You sure made a decision, eh? There was a decision to be made there, and you really just made the shit out of it.”

this line feels very…. 2013 tumblr text post. idk how to explain it

I honesty don’t know how i feel about Kadou having relationships with his guards. It feels like there’s a big power imbalance here, idk.

I wasn’t expecting a love triangle… i hope it’s not actually a love triangle ☹️

I don’t understand why Kadou thinks Evemer hates him this much 🫤 I’m so lost

“[he] spent the next half hour staring into nothing and reviewing every word that he had said to anyone that day, inspecting each interaction from several angles to determine which ones he should be crushingly embarrassed about, and to what degree.”

he’s just like me for real

“Men! Fools and idiots!” — she’s got a point

Why are they just spilling their backstory in a conversation? What a clunky way to set up the world… 😬

they're just dropping a bunch of names i'm already confused 😵‍💫

idk what any of these things are and at this point i'm too afraid to ask (also i lowkey dont care no offense)

“You were shaking. You had to force yourself to touch me. I might be slow, but I can tell when someone’s not interested.”
Oh. (…)
“I’m interested now.”

??!?!?!?! HELLO?? “I’m interested now.” JAINAN YOU’RE INSANE FOR THIS!!!!! 😳

“You were shaking. You had to force yourself to touch me. I might be slow, but I can tell when someone’s not interested.”
Oh. (…)
“I’m interested now.”

??!?!?!?! HELLO?? “I’m interested now.” JAINAN YOU’RE INSANE FOR THIS!!!!! 😳

This is the only kind of misunderstanding i enjoy in books: when 2 characters like each other but they don’t think the other likes them back. The pining! The idiots-in-love trope! Yes!!! 🤌

This is the only kind of misunderstanding i enjoy in books: when 2 characters like each other but they don’t think the other likes them back. The pining! The idiots-in-love trope! Yes!!! 🤌

oh there is a "there was only one bed" type scene (and they even woke up all tangled in each other) 🫢

Jainan thinks Kiem hates him and wants to give him space so he suggests going into a monestary. Kiem doesn't understand Jainan is doing that for Kiem's sake, and thinks that Jainan just doesn't like him and wants to get away from him.

They're such idiots (affectionate).

The pacing is sooooo slow. I hate to say it, but I'm bored 😭. I really thought I'd love this book, but it's honestly not grabbing my attention at all! I'm so sad.

The pacing is kinda slow, ngl. I’m here for the slow burn romance, but I’m not loving the slow paced plot…

«“Why do you look over your shoulder when you laugh?”
It took Jainan a moment to find any sort of answer to that. “I don’t,” he said. Did he?
“Both times,”»

I feel like Taam might’ve been lowkey abusive towards Jainan………… Why else would he act like this and constantly apologize for everything? :(

broooo what did Taam do to Jainan????!!?!?!?!!?!!! I’m so worried about him

“He looks like he wants to kiss me. And a little like he wants to strangle me. We are meant for each other.”

lol

Chapter ends with someone saying “Vanja, NO”. Next chapter is titled “Vanja, yes”. 👌🏻

“I am become my greed.” — it’s giving “i am become a blade”

Ew I’m really not liking how this chapter is literally just the MC breaking the 4th wall and telling the reader everything that happened…
(Literal quote) — “I know you’re wondering how we pulled this one off. (…) Let’s wind back the clock to a little over a day ago” … 😬

“Vanja—
I want
You mean more
I can’t watch you die. You said you didn’t think me a coward, but that’s what I am I am terrified of losing you (…)
I can’t ask you to choose me this us to stay, but I want to be with you more than I fear losing you. If you want me to chase you, I will chase you. If you want me to find you, I will find you. If you’ll have me, I will choose you every time.”

“I don’t know if this is love like in the ballads, but I’m starting to understand why they write them.”

😳🧍

“I want the simple peace of being known by him (…).
I don’t know what’s worse: that he’s slipped into my heart like a knife, or that I like the feel of him there.”

yo??

“I want the simple peace of being known by him (…).
I don’t know what’s worse: that he’s slipped into my heart like a knife, or that I like the feel of him there.”

yo??

«You want to get out of the empire, right?”
“That’s the plan.”
“Then I give you a decent head start.”
This is when I realize: I want that. I want him to chase me.
But it’s not just the chase. I want it to be him.
I want him to chase me. I want to know what it feels like to be caught. I want to burn with him.
Oh, saints and martyrs. I’ll be damned.
I think I want him to kiss me.»

healing someone’s wounds but in a romantic way >>>