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People love this but... I don't like any of the characters and I'm at a point of the story where, despite not disliking what I read this far, I just feel I'm not gonna enjoy it. Probably because I see how I can expect the "romance", that I don't feel, to go on and the idea to read about it for 300 pages is boring.
Maybe the fault is that I'm a bit under the weather today and it'll not be so bad, unlikely tho..."

I saw myself in him. An eight-year-old version of myself who had been told the same lie that he had been.
Give me your heart, and you will never hurt again. Give me your heart, and your soul will be pure.
“You will make mistakes,” I murmured. “And I will love you anyway”
“I never told you how much it meant to me” he said.
I smiled.“Yes, you did. Not with words. But with something even more valuable”
😭​

Of course it was Vincent who made me cry. Holding true to a pattern.

Her daughter, our daughter, is up there still, at the mercy of this game of gods. I will not allow her to suffer the consequences of it. And I do not care if the goddess-damned underworld collapses around me, but I will not allow it to take her with it.

I looked over my shoulder one last time, at the woman reaching for me. I drank in her image, pressing it to my heart—deeper, to my soul.
I turned back to Nyaxia.
“I am ready,” I said.
She smiled, and then she plunged the blade into my chest

What the hell just happened?!! I mean, I expected Asar to sacrifice all of himself for Mische and yet I'm in shock. This is insane! How can they fix all of this?

“Forgive me,I can’t help it”
“Can’t help what?”
“Arguing with you so I can listen to you breathe”
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“You are not an offering.Not to Atroxus or any other god.Any of them would be lucky to kneel before you”He pressed his mouth to my bare shoulder.“As am I”
Asar 🫠
Also Vincent talking about Oraya with Mische"I can’t gamble with her life.” “Nor can I”he murmured.“It is far too precious.” 😭​

“Maybe greatness should come not from the sacrifices you make,but the ones you refuse to”
Yes. I agreed with her. There were some sacrifices I would never make.
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“No matter what’s ahead, never sacrifice the messy parts of your mortality, Asar. I like those the best.”
My gaze fell to her mouth.
“Then take them” I murmured.“They’re for you”

This book is amazing and the plot of the gods is so captivating!

“I’ve learned over the years that people think they want absolution. But that’s not what they really need to hear.”
“What do most people need to hear?”
“They need to hear, ‘Even if it is your fault, I will love you anyway.’ ”

Apparently I was just that good.
Or maybe I had just enough help from the other side.
Or maybe it was simply easier to destroy things than to repair them.
I swallowed a pang of sadness as I grabbed onto a gate to the underworld that was hanging on, barely, by its twisted hinges and I ripped open the door to hell.

Saving yourself from pandemonium by creating a bigger one. Love it.

My fingers, as if of their own accord, played a few slow notes. All my favorite ones, assembled into a song I’d played once, in Esme’s living room.

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“The crown of the House of Shadow is not my priority.”
“Because the underworld is your priority.”
“You are too intelligent for us to be having this conversation right now. You know what my priority is."
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“I’m not grieving anything,” he murmured.
Liar, I thought. My eyes, heavy lidded, fell to his mouth.
Because I was grieving, too.
I was grieving fiercely.

“You underestimated me,Egrette.You drag me out here and you threaten what’s mine.As if she’s just an object to be used for your purposes.”
I was speaking to Malach, Raoul, Shiket, Nyaxia, Atroxus.So many unforgivable injustices.
Behind me,Elias drew his sword, and I snapped, “Put that down, or drive it through your own heart.”
The blade clattered to the floor.
Asar🥵​Is it hot in here or it's just me?

Deep breath... VINCENT!VINCENT!VINCENT!VINCENT!

When I looked at Vincent, let myself reach toward his mind, I could sense the edge of his last moments. Raihn’s bloodstained face. The certainty it would be the last thing he saw. Until Oraya. Oraya, crouching in the colosseum sands, weeping over him.

Already on the verge of crying... He's horrible I know but I love his character!

I love Asar so much (to have his pov is everything)
“I think it’s amusing,” I said, “that creatures as powerful as you are so stupid.”
I, with my drop of immortal blood and my crown and my confusing origins, was at least worthy of Shiket’s revulsion. Mische had simply been inconsequential.
That earned my hatred, too. Hot enough to match that of a goddess.

!!!Most awaited read of 2025about to be my entire personality!
He had thought sacrifice came in the form of the permanent marks on his body and the invisible ones on his soul.
He had been wrong.
He realized it many years later,when he felt the power of the gods course through his veins,power beyond anything he ever could have imagined.
And he cared about none of it, because he was losing the love of his life

‘All I want is a life with you, Embers. Just... a simple life. With you.’
Wren swallowed the lump in her throat. ‘And if I can’t give that to you?’
‘Then I’ll take whatever you can offer and thank the Furies every day for it’
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‘Anything for you, Embers...’
‘Do I already have you wrapped around my finger so thoroughly?’
‘That’s been the case since the first day I met you’

love a man obsessed

‘You’re always safe with me’
‘It feels that way,But I’m not sure that’s always the case’
He nodded sadly.‘I’ve let you down in the past.’
‘I know you’d never let anything happen to me.’ She hadn’t been talking about her physical safety, anyway; she’d been talking about her heart. But she didn’t want to have this conversation. Not now. ‘Do you miss being on the road?’ she asked instead.
‘No, I miss you’

‘Do you know what it’s like to want someone so badly you can’t breathe?’
The words were raw and desperate, bleeding with pain.
‘And to know that no matter what, you can’t have them? They can never be yours?’

‘Am I a good man?Despite everything?’
‘What do you think?’
He drew a trembling breath, not daring to look at her for fear of what he might say or what he might find written all over her beautiful face.‘I don’t know any more’
‘Only a good man would say that’
He came alive beneath her touch, his breath shuddering out of him as a wave of emotions hit.
‘What I want to do to you isn’t what a good man would do’

He’d been about to kiss her, about to lose all that tightly leashed control. Wren wasn’t about to give in so easily. The book was waiting for her back at the tavern, and she’d find out what the Warsword was hiding, one way or another. If it meant torturing the Bear Slayer until he cracked, so fucking be it. Wren was used to playing the long game.

Queen! Torment him for more yearning and longing, yes please.

The trial part is so great, and the cross-examinations so exciting

One tent sleeping together to share body heat after being in the cold rain trope 🤌​🔥​

I haven't figured out what his over whole strategy is, but the defence attorney is the best, crazy good at his job

Now that they are pranking each other and also really getting to know each other and Lydia has stopped acting so over the top, the book is so enjoyable and funny. Their moments of banter and connection are both great and there's more dept, with the characters and the situations, that alternate with hilarious scenes.

I don't know how I feel about this. some scenes are genuinely funny others too over the top

I'm curious but also worried because I hear the pranks are obviously kind of cringe but I hope it's in a fun way and not a too cringe to enjoy way