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You know when an author just has a writing style that cuts through everything in you, and just gets you. Everyone meet Ashley Winstead:


“When it comes to mysteries like this, the kind they call crimes of the century—-you want to savor it. You want as much color as you can get.

Trust me, by the time we’re through, you’ll bleed color.”

I’ve had this on hold from the library for MONTHS.

JUST checked the avg rating and it is wildly low.

Wish me luck.

New audio
I’ve heard it’s wild 👀

Genuinely obsessed w these characters

Now let’s see what all this hype is about 👀

This book is bananas

She kissed me again. A kiss of flames and tears, of sweetest sin, a kiss to which all others would be compared and found wanting.

And if this was wrong, I decided, then let it be the wrong I’d die for.”

“I asked myself if goodness could come of sin, and if so, what sin was at all.

I asked myself if God loved us, how it was he could hate that we found love ourselves.

How he could have deemed it wise to create a world that cradled horrors such as these?”

Been staring at me from my shelf for years

This book is wild

I’m equally loving this book and recognizing it should not be this long 😭

Would love for this to be as good as the family game 👀

Genuinely terrified of this book

“I’d tear the wings off an angel to fly this cage. I'd claw down the sky to carve my name into this earth.

“There are three ways men view the women of the world, Gabriel. Enemies to be overcome.
Prizes to be won. Or as people.

My advice is choose the latter, my love. Lest they begin considering you the former.”

“You weep like a child over a dead horse, but shoot an innocent woman in the back and leave god-fearing men to be slaughtered by foulbloods."

The historian frowned. "What kind of hero are you?" Gabriel laughed, shaking his head.

"Who the fuck told you I was a hero?"

"Do your priests not preach from their pulpits of the grace that lies in humility?" Jean-François asked. "Do they not promise the meek shall inherit the earth?"

"I've lived thirty-five years with the name my mother gave me, coldblood, and never once have I seen the meek inherit anything but the table scraps of the strong."

"Besides, who the fuck would want to inherit an earth like this?"

Genuinely terrified of this book

Not Dustin finishing another series

Ready for Richard to play with my emotions again

This book is hurting me (a compliment)

“"Oh, drink brine! Either arrest me, or leave me be.”

New favorite expletive just unlocked

“Stupidity loves company, whilst wisdom must prepare for a lifetime of solitude”

“But it was not a prosecution, not in the traditional sense. This was the elimination of political dissidents. Only the new special procedure decreed by the Emperor made such a thing possible.

It was as though the common law were a sandbank and His decree the rising tide.”

Ok finally reading book two a year later

Thoughts and prayers

You can’t beg the world to do what you want. You can’t ask it nicely. You must force the world. You must bend it to your will

In Grady we trust