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I had to stop reading this last night as the terror was really getting to me and, despite it being morning now, I have to put it down again as I'm jumping at every shadow. This is definitely a renowned horror classic for a reason!

Wait, the Goodreads Choice Awards has a romantasy category?! Thank you, book gods!!

"innocence is like trust: once gone, it can never be restored."

This is already so unnerving!

"There was nothing reassuring about the silence, nothing comforting. It always began in silence."

"The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left."

In my romance reading, heavily influenced by booktok era 🖤

You know a book is good when it is a reread but you're heart rate is still rising and the writing is making you doubt certain characters, even when you know the ending!

"If I were a boy," Thea told him with a Southern belle smile, "people would just call me driven."
"Thea," Constantine frowned at her.
"Right... no feminism at the dinner table."

Okay, but why is Thea actually growing on me??

Not to be dramatic or anything but I would DIE for Xander.

Team Jameson!

"I apologise for Zander," Grayson commented. "He tends not to buy into such antiquated notions as thinking before one speaks and sitting still for more than three consecutive seconds." He looked down. "He's the best of us, even on his worst days."

I had forgotten how much I adore these Hawthorn brothers!

I've put this aside for the longest time as I really needed to store up a reserve of big brain energy before continuing to tackle it.

"This is a tale of murder.
Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? The saddest kind of love story - about the end of love; the death of love.
So I guess I was right the first time."

I haven't had any reading time since right at the beginning of the month but not only have I neglected this book for a fortnight but I also left off reading it right in the middle of a chapter, and yet I'm right back into the storyline and the action the second I pick it back up!

"I was not a small female, not by any means. Not even a regular sized female. I was tall, wide, with a soft belly and an ass that wobbled when I walked, breasts that swung and enticed."

WE LOVE TO SEE IT!

Veyka finding Parys in the library, surrounded by book stacks, cake, and wine, has only made me love him even more!

"Our bodies may burn for one another, but our souls sparked with loathing."

YES! This is the type of enemies to lovers that I need in my life!

Arran is so Rhysand coded and I'm living for it.

"The one person I’d ever allowed myself to love was dead. I would never again allow myself to make that mistake."

Veyka has my heart already and I'm only 48 pages in!

I have work in the morning but it is too hot to sleep so I'm immersing myself in a new fantasy world and sipping on iced coffee instead.

"sometimes, some loves keep your head above the water when you’re drowning. Some loves might fog up a phone booth on a rainy London afternoon and make you feel less alone than you did before your lips touched. He’s leaving what we had behind, like he should. Like I should have let him so long ago. But I’ll miss him on my rainy days.”

This book is so fucking weird and everyone in it is some level of messed up and yet I entirely love it and them all!!

"there are all sorts of love in this world and mine is killing me, I think."

"That's where we're constantly trying to revert to, I think. To a place from before we began killing each other for our hearts to stay alive."

Reading this book fucking HURTS.

"Our eyes hold like our hands won't."

These two are toxic af! I love them!

"The physical distance between us is meagre, but somehow still a forest grows between. Pine trees of mistakes so tall we can't see over them and rivers of things we didn't say so wide we can't get around."

The blossoming friendships between Auren and these men make me silly smile but I have a feeling it is all going to be ruined soon.

"Some would say that they don't deserve your kindness," Keg points out.

I shake my head, watching the ground as we go, "Kindness shouldn't have to be earned. It should be freely given."