Grace King’s Reviews > The Beauty of Darkness > Status Update

ok finished this series took me ages to get through it was kinda boring and I wasn’t hooked. The romance wasn’t romancing and there was nothing gripping me to the book. I didn’t really care for any of the characters and I wish things like the komizars death etc wasn’t so easy. idk eh book 3.5 ⭐️

“No. You can throw it away.”

“Love didn’t end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn’t love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.”

“but on the inside, nothing was the same. It would never be the same again.”

“I buried my knife deep in my betrothed’s throat,
And as he gasped for his last breath,
As his blood soaked the earth,
There were no tears
Among any of us,
Especially none from me.
- The Lost Words of Morrighan”

“The Chancellor is Simone’s father.”

“You have a beautiful son, Pauline.”

I hate pregnancy tropes

“When I tried to move him into our house, she beat him in a rage.”

“He’s dying. They are killing him.”

“You and your gift! You said the mistress would die a horrible death, and she did. You miserable little beast—“