Maria’s Reviews > The Trident and the Pearl > Status Update

No romance, do much violence...and 2 dead husbands 🤐 but the audiobook is amazing 🤩

Partly confused 😕 but need to know what's going on😇

His voice is upset enough that I feel a twist of jealousy—though why I would be jealous that the god I want to murder might care about a dead woman, I do not know.😜

“I beg you forget your revenge,” he says, and his jaw clenches as if this is taking an effort to ask.
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He asked for riches from me and instead I have given him evidence of what a pauper I am, for I have nothing left but my bitterness and rage. I’ve filled his thimble with both....🤩 love the writing ✍️ ❤️

Without meaning to, my mind instantly compares him to Lieve, but it feels as impossible as comparing a fish to a bird. They are not the same. 💔😟

Grief is its own vast sea,” Oke says in the darkness of the cottage....😪

Sorrow is the gift you give what cannot be or is not anymore. It is a gift to the past. Anger is the gift you give the future, a sacrifice offered to unrelenting gods in hopes they’ll choke upon it and you can rebuild the world as you like it from their bones.”

I look at him sidelong. “How long have you been waiting to share that thought with someone?”

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