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rlly interesting intro to the political system so far!!

"James' father, Will, had a similar mark, also on his chest; James said Will sometimes rested his fingers against it when he was thinking, as if he could still feel his ghostly connection to Jem."

eyeliner-wearing heretic x diviner who's only known worship her whole life, this will definitely eat

I love pain!

"Seven years ago, Laurence Lennox-Hall tried to kill him in the garden, down amongst the roses. But somehow, Evander is still obsessed with him."

"what is love if not devouring"

THE ONLY DUO EVER I will forever eat this kind of dynamic up

these next 100 pages are gonna be crazy pls let them have a happy ending

Opal makes this book a comedy because there's a creepy house everyone is wary of, meanwhile she's like "I've been working there for months and the worst thing I've seen is Arthur Starling in a towel"

wlw?? marion?? her backstory :0
I just love these interactions with the other debutantes more than the princes lmaoooo

this feels like reading a shoujo manga (in a good way). that's probably why its so fun

the coat :') crying. I loveee eerie babygirl men, this reminds me of francis from mexican gothic

ahhh footnotes!!! love when authors include them and make the setting feel so real

I loveeeee this 2nd book so far very very much, the slowburn is absolutely slow burning. laurent is the perfect balance of babygirl and cunning genius

"because a kingmaker would always choose the weaker man. the weaker the man, the easier he is to control"
"what makes you think kastor is the weaker man, you don't even know him"
"but im coming to know you"
* internally screaming *

"he was the best fighter in akielos. I thought if I was going to kill someone like that, I would have to be very, very good"
NDJDJDJDJDJ x100

"why do you give me good advice"
"why don't you take any of it?"
ndjdjjdjd

govart needs to die please

the spin the bottle scene

at first I was like hmm...but now I'm hooked and curious to see how this mystery plays out as we're sucked into the school's secret society

time for odysseus

it's always a pleasure to get mesmerized by madeline miller's beautiful prose

hero :(

it's giving "we're getting the band back together" !!