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491 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 19, 2022
I don’t understand how I could be so special. I’m not even pretty enough, I’m just a human who fell in love with two males and I am nothing. I wish I could sacrifice myself to save people from the agony of being near me.
I am meant to be here. I am shadow, I am flame, I deserve better than these two males trying to hold me in. I’m a bird.
"But you did. You took the potion, and in doing so, you salvaged one beautiful thing in a world full of ugliness. I, for one, will never be sorry for that."
"In a different world, in a different life, we'd be together. No kingdoms to rule, no people to save, just you and me..."
"This is a throne of the night, of the misfits and the lost. This is the throne for all those who had to endure the darkness to find the stars..."
"Pick a star", he whispered in my ear. "Make a wish."
”I’m always yours.”
“Pick a star,” he whispers in my ear. “Make a wish.” I thread my fingers through his and make the same wishes I’ve made every night(…) I wish for everyone to know and have a love like this.”
“I know that’s not who you really are. I think I knew it the first time I saw you. You’re no princess. You’re my queen.”
i’m giving it 4 stars for sport bc tbh idk if i liked more this one or the first one. so don’t take it too seriously.
i found the first half pretty boring, but then the second half was really entertaining. needless to say, brie made me so fucking mad i had to take several breaks all throughout the book. but i guess the problem it’s me, bc when things don’t go as i want, i tend to get pretty frustrated. so i guess it’s my issue.
➼ brie grew on me! i appreciated her more in this book even tho she tested my patience. she showed strength and bravery too. she’s also way better than me bc i’m too selfish to sacrifice the man i love for a little bitch. sorry not sorry.
➼ finn didn’t disappoint ofc, my instincts never fail me! i loved him.
➼ ronan irked me for the 97% of the book and i hoped someone would end him permanently otherwise i would have done it myself.
➼ i loved kane and pretha too, and misha is so funny, istg he made me laugh sm. and also, i’m glad juliana is hairless. again–sorry not sorry.
i have to complain tho. i liked the magic system but why didn’t the author explore it more? basically, nobody used magic in this book. and it sucks bc i wanted to know more about brie’s and finn’s power. i feel like it was left in the dark, to focus on other things.
overall, i’d recommend this duet. it’s nothing OMG SHOCKER but it’s still an enjoyable reading. y’all surely will find similarities with other books, but i think it’s worth a try nonetheless.
onto the next✨
“Now that you’re clean, I can certainly see the appeal.”
“The appeal?”
His russet eyes are bright when they meet mine again. “As we speak, two of the most powerful males in our realm are fighting over you.” He waves a hand up and down. “Now that you’re cleaned up, I can see why. Perhaps I’ll let them destroy each other and keep you for myself.”
I gape. What a pig. “You will not.”
I shoot Misha a glare for poking around in my mind, and he winks at me.
“Look at how jealous he is. If you’d like to make him absolutely mad with jealousy, I’d be happy to help.”
“Don’t hold your breath.”
I give him a pointed look to drive the thought home, and Misha grins. Beside me, Finn growls and sends a glare of his own in Misha’s direction. “If you two are done, I’d like to return to the subject at hand.”
“Maybe I just don’t want him to have it.”
“Aren’t you, like, hundreds of years old? Why are you acting like a spoiled child who doesn’t want to share his toys?”
His grin is smug, and his gaze is pure wicked intention as he looks me over slowly. “I don’t consider you a toy, Princess, but if you’d like to play, all you have to do is ask.”
“Those of us who love the night revel in it because of how clearly it allows us to find even the smallest points of light. Whereas they deny that darkness exists, even while the sun they worship throws shadows in every corner.”
“Afraid you might beg me to touch you again?” he asks.
I scoff. “Do you get tired carrying that ego around with you everywhere you go?”
When you came into my life, you were a bright star in an endlessly dark night.
“You can’t feel him at all?” Finn asks, stepping closer. “Even when you reach out and try?”
I mentally reach out to the other side of that wall I keep between us and shake my head. “Nothing.”
He scans my face. “Good.” He doesn’t miss a beat before lowering his mouth to mine, hot and hungry and impatient.
“Loving you, feeling the gift of your love—it’s the best thing that ever happened to me. Regretting that just because you won’t be mine anymore would be . . . That would be like regretting a glimpse of the stars before being plunged into eternal darkness.”
“In a different world, in a different life, we’d be together,” I whisper. “No kingdoms to rule, no people to save, just you and me and a simple life loving each other.”
“But we’re in this world. In this life.” He presses a kiss to the top of my head, and it feels like goodbye. “So I’ll have to save that for my dreams.”
“What are you thinking about?” I ask.
“I’m thinking about how you’re the most amazing creature I have ever met.”
“You love me?” he asks.
“I love you,” I say without hesitation or reservation. “You love me?”
“I love you,” he says.
“Pick a star,” he whispers in my ear. “Make a wish.”