Dannii Elle’s Reviews > The Court of Miracles > Status Update

"I can keep them mesmerised for hours recounting the tales of my people. They hang on every word like thirsty men; I can keep them entertained until the sun rises. On those nights, I've gone to bed drunk on the feeling that I've been seen for the very first time."

"There are no friends in the Miracle Court, only allies."

"Justice is a fire that rages through your bones. The law hangs upon your heart like a burden."

"You're mad," I say.
"Perhaps, for only the mad would see the endless darkness, the great evil that reigns around us, and stand against it."

'Our mother the City is not a merciful mother,' she says as she gathers my hair in one hand. 'To be a girl in this city is to be weak. It is to call evil things down upon you. And the City is not kind to weak things. She sends Death the Endless to winnow the frail from the strong. You know this.'

The release of book two has been pushed back so many times now and I've pushed back my reread of book one too, but I'm hopeful this is the last time and we will finally have new material in this world, by the summer!

"Blind are the distracted.

Count me one of the distracted as this twist has left me open-mouthed!

"Death-the-Endless comes for us all... There's nothing to fear in the grave. But whilst we live, it is instability that we should fear."

"You're mad," I say.
"Perhaps, for only the mad would see the endless darkness, the great evil that reigns around us, and stand against it."