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“You will not be alone either, I will find a way to be with you in the darkness, I promise. And when you think the whole world had abandoned you, I’ll be there, holding your hand.”

“How could it be otherwise, when you are in my heart?”

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Ugh, I wanted to enjoy this. I don’t think it’s going to happen. At least for now, I’m dropping it.

This is 1 of 4 different versions of Beauty & The Beast that I’ve at some point downloaded to my Kindle. I’m intrigued to compare the differences. What I like about this one is the modern concept of a burned soilder as the beast. But the book moves really fast, which is making it hard for me to feel an emotional attachment to any of the characters...

The urge to put this book away and never finish it is really strong, just because I don’t want to run out of this character! Sigh, at least I still have the rest of the Outlander series...

*when you’re Edmund*

“Oh, come off it!” said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which always made him bad tempered”.

I’m Edmund, though.

“Oh, come off it!” said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which always made him bad tempered.

XD

A man who would leave the stage war only when carried off of it feet first. A man who hasn’t given up.

Once the strategy and tactics of a battle were decided, you put it out of your mind until you came to the field and saw what was what. Trying to fight a battle in your head was pointless and did nothing but fret the nerves and exhaust the energies.

“He hadn’t any money but enjoyed himself in strolling through the narrow streets, luxuriating in the feeling that - for however short a time - no one in the world knew exactly where he was. The day was bright, though cold, and the gardens had begun to bloom with snowdrops, tulips, and daffodils, blowing in the wind”.

“You know...Our business is chaos, death, destruction. But you know why we do it, too...Someone has to keep order, John. Soldiers fight for all kinds of reasons, most of them ignoble. You, though—...The world is chaos and death and destruction. But people like you—you don’t stand for that...What is it the Bible says? Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied”.

Hell was full of clocks, he was sure of it. There was no torment, after all, that could not be exacerbated by a contemplation of time passing. The large case clock at the end of the corridor had a particularly penetrating tick-tock, audiable above and through all the noises of the house. It seemed to Lord John Grey to echo his own heartbeats, each one a step on the road towards death.

100 pages doesn’t seem like enough to resolve what’s going on here. I’m really curious to see where this is going....

“I knew from the first glimpse that he was dead. But I ran to him”.

There was no way in which to describe his feelings, because he hadn’t had any. The world had simply ceased in that moment, and with it, all his knowledge of how things were done. He simply could not see how life might continue. The first lesson of adult life was it, horribly, did.

He paused by the window, looking up into a lavender sky, fingers pressed against the icy glass. No stars tonight; the snowflakes came down out of the dark, rushing towards him, endless, uncountable. Silent, too, but not like the stars. Falling snow whispered secrets to itself.

“And you are a fanciful idiot,” he said outloud.

Lord John and The Succubus felt more complete to me than The Hellfire Club. Whereas that one felt like just a taste of something really good, this didn’t leave me wanting at all. It was in turns funny and utterly painful. Plus, it kept me guessing the whole time.

Considering the dark and often awkward nature of his life, John’s persistence in being good natured really cheers me up :)

I have a real urge to eat a eel pie.

Lord John & The Hellfire Club was super weird and very fast. So far, I’m delighted with Grey’s life beyond Outlander. I can’t wait to see what else he gets up to.

How salty is your vampire dad, with Carlisle Cullen being -5, Philippe being a strong 15, and Marius de Romanus being 20? XD

Philippe, though!