Rai (is hard to please)’s Reviews > Lord of Embers > Status Update

“Slowly, a circle of ivory mushrooms pushed through the snow—Destroying Angels, they were called. Maybe that was what I’d become.”

“How did it feel?” he asked, his dark eyes gleaming with curiosity.
“Not great, Tammuz,” I said. “Strangling to death is not my idea of a good time.”

… in-law goals

“Tammuz, you chaotic bastard. Was this all you’d wanted from me? To die here surrounded by fucking morons?”

Me @ God

Ka = soul???

“Thou shalt be stripped to the waist and whipped through town at the back of a cart.”
“Don’t threaten me with a good time.”

Tell em, Orion
Fuck u, puritans

Ok—does the star have five points or six?

“Everything I said stands. You’re nothing but a beautiful irritant.”
(…)
She cocked her head. “You did say beautiful, though.”

That’s the spirit

“If you try to fight your true nature, you will lose, and you will break in the struggle. Accept what you are, and it will be less painful.”

“In a man’s world like this, you could get in trouble for being old and ugly and past your prime. Or you could get in trouble for being young and tempting. Women like that made a man sin. And that, of course, was your fault, too.”

Facts

“I can’t stand you,” I said through labored breaths. My pride made me say it, since I knew how he felt about me.
“The feeling is mutual,” he whispered against my neck, “but I will die if I don’t kiss you.”

… oop