Rai (is hard to please) > Recent Status Updates

“The king was in love with her, then.”
“Yes. Like many others.”

What if he had a kid with her and that kid was a Lilu who was killed in the genocide

Conveniently takes Latin for no apparent reason

“How I’d never actually had an orgasm, and I wasn’t convinced they were real—the idea seemed like an elaborate hoax.”

Ah, yes. The sexually-repressed-heroine-meets-veritable-sex-god-trope. Oh, how I haven’t missed you

(…) “When we finally had sex, it was…so boring. I remember reading the spines of the books on his shelves, waiting for it to end. I remember a mosquito biting my butt cheek.”

Have you perhaps… considered women?

Why is a 22 yr old woman EMAILING pictures to her best friend…?

“I can’t explain this feeling, but something deep inside senses I will need Jarek by my side.”

🤨🤨🤨

“I respect his counsel and need his sword, but I cannot decide if he will be our greatest ally or our worst enemy.”

No cause same

“He likes sweet and innocent mortals, something I am not.”

That sure sounds familiar… *cough* Zander *cough*

“Jarek uses his proximity to me to steal a glance over his shoulder, the tip of his nose skating across my cheek.”

GENUINELY WTF IS UP WITH THESE TWO

“I wonder how she will handle coming this far to rescue her love from the Nulling, only to lose him to Malachi’s aim for a throne?” Gesine ponders this out loud, but I sense she already has an opinion.
“Not well would be my guess.”

IF Y’ALL DONT TEAM UP WITH SOPHIE ISTGGG

“I think Malachi has plans to assume Elijah’s body.”

Ewwwww
He just gets ickier by the minute
#savesophie

“Eden glances up at the warrior but quickly averts her attention to the ground when she sees that he’s studying her.”

Aweee I was rooting for her and Elisaf…. unless he’s gay. He might be gay, actually

“A strong warrior. A protector. She will make a good lover, and not hesitate to end your suffering when the time comes.”

I FUCKING KNEW ITTTT
I KNEW GESINE WAS GOOD PEOPLEEE

“He couldn’t resist, could he?”

Imagine if Jarek got poisoned-

Romy and Jarek’s banter is really throwing me off bc I can’t tell if Tucker is luring me into a false sense of security to make it hurt more when Jarek betrays her… or if his sketchiness is a red herring and he’s actually gonna end up saving the day

“A part of me regrets saying anything, but keeping it no longer seems necessary in the grand scheme of things. Zander’s father isn’t here to punish him.”

Is that a jinx I hear???

“Would she be willing to sacrifice me to see peace restored? Would her gentle and welcoming heart allow her to do that? To put Islor ahead of me? Of us?
I fear I already know that answer.”

Watch it be the opposite 💀

“I’ll take anything you’ll give me.” Maddening desire radiated from every part of him. Then he dropped to his knees, his hands gripping my hips. “I’ll beg at your feet for a pathetic glance, a simple touch.” He coasted his open mouth across my belly, searing me through the thin fabric of my gown. “I’ll be your slave. Anything you want, Juliana. Just put me out of my goddamn misery.”

“I’m not marrying you,” I spat.
“Yes, you are.”

Casteel…? That you??

“It was locked, of course, but when I twisted the handle, it broke apart in my hands, a snapped bolt shooting halfway across the room.”

Ohhhh shit. Y’all exchanged blood.
… Turning time??

“Half human.”

Now how tf does that even work??

“Look at me, my child.”

Is this foreshadowing, or…?

“He could certainly defeat Ibrihim.”

Knock on wood, sis

“Giving you his power and taking yours.”

So he intentionally avoided teaching her how to weird her powers so that she wouldn’t be able to use them against him?

“Enough,” he said tightly. “We lost some of it in the fire but… I have enough. If I ration.”

She should start bottling her blood now. Just a little bit each day to distribute when the bloodlust looms. It’ll mean helping her opponents, but it’ll render her indispensable to them until the final trial.
But she won’t. Cause obligatory feeding scenes.

“It carved a large triangle across his upper back, then trailed all the way down its center. A burn, maybe?”

That’s totally a disguised heir mark… right?

Watch Mische’s sire be Vincent. Yikes.

Is Oraya like… Alarus’ daughter or sumn 💀 or is that too YA for this

“Why did it bother me that Vincent had told her all of that?”

Time for every reader’s fav game of chance:
is this character sus bc they’re sus or is this a red herring??
Is Jesmine using the Nightborn rivalry to usurp the throne, or is Oraya an unreliable narrator? Am I over thinking this? Probably.

“Not a vampire, I realized after a moment, but a human. She reminded me of Ilana.”

Ooooh, they’re Turned. Gotcha.