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Nobody's fault, but this book and I didn't click. It's falling flat for me. And the "silly" soon became "cringe".

Many digressions, some important others unnecessary. Now I'm getting in the tick of things, I might end up continuing sooner than I thought. Maybe.

This summer pick for secondary book to keep as beach read and "between books" read, so the progress will be slow and irregular

I lost interest in the new characters, stories and romances of the series, they are all the same and I don’t care about any of them, they lack the spark of the earlier books, I’m checking it out just to see if something happens for the over whole plot

look, I don't want to nitpick, but you're telling me they are at a black tie event and playing a sort of tag game having to run around sweating before dinner in thousands of dollars dresses? try to run with a long skirt I dare you

Cute 😊

Feel like trying this one since it says it can be read as a standalone.
(I did try to take a look at book 1 but I wasn't vibing with it, so finger crossed here)

There was something about not being able to see a man’s face that gave him power.And that’s what they wanted.Fear
It made a group of Sanctifiers brutally beating a woman seem justified in the name of duty.And trained the people who disagreed to stand by and do nothing
Disgusting💩​who enjoy pain and hide behind a higher mission make me sick.I could read about Skye,Ivain,Sarina andAimee kill them all day

“Take your hands off my daughter” Ivain snarled, low and deadly.
“You really think binding her magic will be enough to stop me?”
“Oh,I never thought it would stop you,I just wanted to make this a fair fight.Jump around all you want,tear through the city,but she’s no longer of any use to you—not unless you’re prepared to get through me”
Ivain is a king
P.S. Taly rewinding time to save her pet is right

“I liked your speech”
“Shut up”
“If I do die, I want you to read my eulogy. You have, and I mean this, such a way with words”
“I said shut up”
“Does this mean we can get matching lockets? Because I want mine engraved”
“I’m going to kill you” Kato growled, and lunged for his throat.
“I’m healing!” Skye yelped, twisting half-under the blankets. “I’m in a medically fragile state—ow. Get off!”

brotherly love

Skye just said it again,slowly.“Where you go,I go”
--
"You are my future.Nothing is going to change that,I won’t let it.And you can beat me until we’re both black and blue if that’s what it takes to make you understand that I am choosing this.I am choosing you because you are my home.So,please…stop trying to lock me out of it.I will gladly spend my life running so long as it’s you that I’m running towards”

“I keep waiting for him to get tired of this mess. He’d be better off if he just… left.”
Ivain gave a small huff. “The ocean’s more likely to vanish than he is to leave you behind. He never gave up, you know. Even with everyone telling him to face his grief, to start the process of moving on, he never doubted. Not for one moment. He never stopped believing you would make it through.”

Back at angst with Taly stubbornly pushing Skye away:being bonded with her is dangerous, he shouldn't want her, he can still get out and be safe... girl,just accept that he loves you more than anything and would do anything for you and will never not stand with you
P.S. I see where this is going with the sacrifice trail,the bond will get broken,I feel it.I'm already grieving ahead.It better be remade in the next book

“I can’t stop you from being stubborn and reckless. I’ve accepted that. But someone is going to be there to watch your back.”
“Fine. You can come. But if we get caught, I’m blaming you.”
“Fine.”
“And I’m not going to be happy if you screw this up.”
“Okay.”
“I don’t want sex when I’m not happy.”
But he just smiled in the face of such an empty threat. “We’ll see about that.”

“That boy set fire to his own future,and he did it in her name. Trust me. If she knew we’d have heard the blast by now”
It was true.Their daughter would throw herself in front of a blade for Skye, but Shards forbid anyone do the same for her. “I suppose we’re a family of exiles now”
The time mage, the bloodcrafter, the eccentric geezer who had gone and made himself a hermit—and her, the disappointment

My fam

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Skye supposed if the nobility could be depended on for one thing, it was to carry on as if nothing had changed when the world outside was burning.

“For what it’s worth, I’m glad Taly has you—even if it might be better for your health to think twice before diving in after her every time.”
Skye managed a tired smile. “Not much chance of that.”
“No, I didn’t think so.”

Skye was watching her. She took a shaky breath. The depth of love there, the desire,it—
“Well,” he said, sitting up with a stretch, “I got what I wanted.”
He made to leave. “I should probably—”
Taly punched his shoulder, growling as he laughed and tackled her back to the bed. “That’s not funny,” she muttered. “You’re not funny.”
He kissed her deeply. “As if you don’t already know you own me, body and soul.”

That thread pulling between them.Growing stronger, brighter, stealing away pieces of her and pieces of him and weaving them together into a bridge.
Her friend through the years.The man she loved with every part of her body and soul.
The bond thrummed,and when it settled,she knew she was not the same. The shape of her had changed to make room for him. And somehow,that new piece made the rest of her fit together better

"It’s fun seeing you squirm. I mean, I wasn’t planning on picking a fight to torment you—but then the opportunity just sort of presented itself. I’m in a much better mood now. Thank you.”
“You took something beautiful and turned it into an act of vengeance.” He shook his head, his lips curving up despite himself. “I…” He laughed, quiet and breathless. “I forget sometimes how much I like you.”

"Am I interrupting something?” He sniffed the air, no doubt smelling sweat and arousal. “Yes, I am.”
“What do you want?”
The asshole just laughed and shrugged. “You know… I don’t even remember. To stop you from getting laid, apparently.”
“Get out of here,” Skye snapped.
Kato pressed his hands together and bowed. “Thank you for this.”

Skye and Kato brotherly banter/poking at each other kills me 🤣​

Skye was howling with laughter so loudly, Taly half expected him to suffocate. If he didn’t, she vowed to speed the process along.

True love

1.lot of changes from the first draft
2.This is one of the best friends to lovers ever
3.One things that makes me really like the soul bond here is that it's not about fate, it developed because they love each other so much, because they know each other better than anyone and have a deep friendship at the base of their romance, with such a strong connection and love that their souls reach out to one another

1.I re looked through the first 2 books and I'm ready
2.concentratio needed (thanks years of Doctor Who for preparing me),this series has time travel, alternative futures and variants of the same character from different points in time
3.I know it'll be a 5 stars, the first 2 were, lot set up stuff is about to converge,and I follow the author on Patreon so 2/3 years ago I read a chunk of the beta beta beta version

“Why would they think you dead? Did they think I would kill you?” Mal asked, stepping into the room behind her.
“It makes it easier, I suppose.”
“Easier for whom?” The anger vibrating through him spilled into his voice.

For them. Her family members never concern themselves with her happiness or safety, or fighting for her, only their own comfort

“You severely overestimate both your own fearsomeness and my morals. I’ve slept with plenty of handsome men with terrible personalities before. You are not uniquely attractive to me” He absolutely was.
“Gisele!”
“Don’t worry; I’m sure you can’t help your terrible personality”
“Oh, I can’t, can I?” he took her offered hand and they stood there grinning stupidly at each other, holding hands.

“You are worth more than any amount of gold.”
She turned to him then, almost angrily. “Didn’t I just tell you what that gold did for Isshia? How dare you tell me it wasn’t worth anything.”
He met and held her gaze, unbending. “I’m glad that it was used well, but that does not make it your measuring stick.”

She began to laugh. Him arguing with his own self-inflicted curse was so bitterly ironic that it was either laugh or cry. The sight of him glaring at her like an outraged cat with his tail bristling only made her laugh harder. He was just so entirely…not terrifying, and she’d lived her whole life in fear of him, which now seemed so absurd that there wasn’t anything else to do but laugh at that too

ok, now I'm more into it, rooting for Evie