♬⋆.˚ And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars, And why I've spent my whole life trying to put it As taylor swift once said;
♬⋆.˚ And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars, And why I've spent my whole life trying to put it into words. ♬⋆.˚
"This girl wasn’t like wildfire—she was wildfire. Deadly and uncontrollable. And slightly out of her wits."
hello???? this was so tragically beauti"This girl wasn’t like wildfire—she was wildfire. Deadly and uncontrollable. And slightly out of her wits."
hello???? this was so tragically beautiful???? women empowering women will forever be the best thing to be a witness of!
But Celaena had stood in front of that wooden door to the bedroom, listening to Yrene wash her clothes in the nearby kitchen. She found herself unable to turn away, unable to stop thinking about the would-be healer with the brown-gold hair and caramel eyes, of what Yrene had lost and how helpless she’d become. There were so many of them now—the children who had lost everything to Adarlan. Children who had now grown into assassins and barmaids, without a place to truly call home, their native kingdoms left in ruin and ash.
There was such irony, she realized, in them working together—the assassin and the healer. Opposite sides of the same coin.
She hoped that an assassin’s jewel would pay for a healer’s education.
*** An important part for all ladies:
» SELF DEFENCE TIPS BY ADARLAN'S MOST NOTORIOUS ASSASSIN ✍️ “People—men usually—don’t hunt for the women who look like they’ll put up a fight. They’ll pick you because you look off guard or vulnerable or like you’d be sympathetic. They’ll usually try to move you to another location—somewhere they won’t need to worry about being interrupted.”
Yrene’s eyes were wide, her face pale in the light of the torch Celaena had dropped just outside the back door. Helpless. What was it like to be helpless to defend yourself? A shudder that had nothing to do with the rats gnawing on the dead mercenaries went through her.
“Do not let them move you to another location,” Celaena continued, reciting from the lessons that Ben, Arobynn’s Second, had once taught her. She’d learned self-defense before she’d ever learned to attack anyone, and to first fight without weapons, too.
“Fight back enough to convince them that you’re not worth it. And make as much noise as you can. In a shit-hole like this though, I bet no one will bother coming to help you. But you should definitely start screaming your head off about a fire—not rape, not theft, not something that cowards would rather hide from. And if shouting doesn’t discourage them, then there are a few tricks to outsmart them.”
“Some might make them drop like a stone, some might take them down temporarily, but as soon as they let go of you, your biggest priority is getting the hell away. You understand? They let you go, you run.”
Yrene nodded, still wide-eyed. She remained that way as Celaena took the hand she’d lifted and walked her through the eye-gouge, showing her how to shove her thumbs into the corner of someone’s eyes, crook her thumbs back behind the eyeballs and—well, Celaena couldn’t actually finish the demonstration, since she liked her own eyeballs very much. But Yrene grasped it after a few times, and did it perfectly when Celaena grabbed her from behind again and again.
She then showed her the ear-clap, then how to pinch the inside of a man’s upper thigh hard enough to make him scream, where to stomp on the most delicate part of the foot, which soft spots were the best to hit with her elbow (Yrene actually hit her so hard in the throat that Celaena gagged for a good minute). And then told her to go for the groin—always try to go for a strike to the groin.
And when the moon was setting, when Celaena was convinced that Yrene might stand a chance against an assailant, they finally stopped. Yrene seemed to be holding hers a bit taller, her face flushed.
“If they come after you for money,” Celaena said, jerking her chin toward where the mercenaries lay in a heap, “throw whatever coins you have far away from you and run in the opposite direction. Usually they’ll be so occupied by chasing after your money that you’ll have a good chance of escape.”
Yrene nodded. “I should—I should teach all this to Jessa.”
Celaena didn’t know or care who Jessa was, but she said, “If ever you get the chance, teach it to any female who will take the time to listen.” ***
“Let me give you a bit of advice,” the girl said bitterly, “from one working girl to another: Life isn’t easy, no matter where you are. You’ll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.” Those remarkable eyes flickered. “So if you’re going to be miserable, you might as well go to Antica and be miserable in the shadow of the Torre Cesme.”...more
» ALEXA PLAY LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO BY TAYLOR SWIFT AHHHHHHHH
"It's me and you, trouble. Team Ravi and Pip."
this book either deserves a 5 sta» ALEXA PLAY LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO BY TAYLOR SWIFT AHHHHHHHH
"It's me and you, trouble. Team Ravi and Pip."
this book either deserves a 5 star rating or a 1 star rating. there is no in between. i'm leaving this with no rating because the amount of times this book made me fluctuate between being a critic and being an admirer is crazy. it pisses me off to leave a book without rating. but i just... can't ...more
ohmyfreakinggod this single-handedly threw the all the previous mz books from their thrones. another proof that it's not the slump or the mood or a 'mohmyfreakinggod this single-handedly threw the all the previous mz books from their thrones. another proof that it's not the slump or the mood or a 'me' problem, it's the goddamn book, the writing, the characters and the author. who would've thought that after 4-5 dnfs, an ample amount of boredom clouding my senses and the biggest slump of my life pushing my buttons, a slow burn romance where --a big brooding rude as hell but cute af grumpy asshole and a women who is an angel in disguise-- hug after fucking 75%; will be the one to manage to sneak my infinity stars. I LOVED LOVED LOVED THIS BOOK!!
Reiner Kulti is so Reiner Braun from attack on titan coded that i couldn't help but imagine his fine dilf ass as Kulti:
Not sure i liked the explanation of how it ended and why it all happened, but it ended with most of my favourite characters being intact, so there's tNot sure i liked the explanation of how it ended and why it all happened, but it ended with most of my favourite characters being intact, so there's that ...more
bawling my eyes out to cardan's letters while where's my love by SYML plays in the background:
SYML: Cold bones, yeah, that's my love She hides away, likbawling my eyes out to cardan's letters while where's my love by SYML plays in the background:
SYML: Cold bones, yeah, that's my love She hides away, like a ghost
Cardan: Since I cannot imagine there is much in the human lands to interest you, I can only suppose your continued absence in Elfhame is due to me. I urge you: Come be angry at a nearer distance.
SYML: Ooh, does she know that we bleed the same? Ooh, don't wanna cry but I break that way
SYML: Did she run away? Did she run away? I don't know If she ran away, if she ran away, come back home Just come home.
Cardan: You are in no mood for games. Very well. I am in no mood for them, either. Let me write it outright: You are pardoned. I revoke your banishment. I rescind my words. Come home. Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home.
SYML: Cold sheets, oh, where's my love?
Cardan: “I didn’t mean to hurt you.” He grabs my hand, possibly to keep me from hitting him again. Our fingers lace together. “No, it’s not that, not exactly. I didn’t think I could hurt you. And I never thought you would be afraid of me.”
(ahem ahem- “I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy.” -ahem ahem)
SYML: I am searching high I'm searching low in the night
Cardan: We spoke after Madoc carried you off from the palace,” Cardan begins. Vivi goes on, ignoring me. “Yeah, and the next thing we know, the High King is on our doorstep looking ready to tear down the whole apartment complex to find you."
SYML: Ooh, if you've bled, I bleed the same Ooh, if you're scared, I'm on my way
Cardan: In my most wretched hours, I believe you will never come back. Why would you, save for your ambition? You have always known exactly what I am and seen all my failings, all my weaknesses and scars. I flattered myself that at moments you had feelings for me other than contempt, but even were that true, they would be but watered wine beside the feast of your other, greater desires. And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the Undersea. It was yours before I could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.
SYML: I got a fear, oh, in my blood She was carried up into the clouds, high above
Cardan: "It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.”
SYML: Did you run away? Did you run away? I don't need to know If you ran away, if you ran away, come back home Just come home.
Cardan: “Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips.” His eyes are black with desire. “By you, I am forever undone.”
PHENOMENAL. SHOW STOPPING. GROUNDBREAKING. EARTHSHATTERING. BRILLIANT. ASTRONOMICAL. STRIKING. SPECTACULAR. SIMPLY AMAZING. DAZZLING. STUNNING. EYE-CAPHENOMENAL. SHOW STOPPING. GROUNDBREAKING. EARTHSHATTERING. BRILLIANT. ASTRONOMICAL. STRIKING. SPECTACULAR. SIMPLY AMAZING. DAZZLING. STUNNING. EYE-CATCHING. BREATHTAKING. UNFORGETTABLE. MIRACULOUS. ASTOUNDING. NEVER THE SAME. COMPLETELY NOT EVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. PUT IT IN A BLENDER, SHIT ON IT, VOMIT ON IT, EAT IT, GIVE BIRTH TO IT.
-spoiler- I WASCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP TWERKING ON MY FLOOR
I FEEL BETRAYED. I FEEL SO SO SO BETRAYED.
why did it have to end like that!? WHYYYYYYYYYYY
-spoiler- I WANTED DAVID. I WANTED THEM TO END UP TOGETHER.
my heart fucking dropped when carrie went- "You gave me hope and perspective and confidence. Right before you gave me my baby." GIRL HOW CASUALLY CAN YOU DROP THAT BOMB!?
DID DAVID EVER RESPOND?? i'm sure he did but WHAT WAS HIS REACTION TO CARRIE HAVING HIS BABY????
You are the second half of my heart nowadays, Carrie Ann. And I am lucky for it.
All yours, David.
i absolutely refuse to believe he continued living his happy married life with Janet as if there was no connection between him and Carrie. FUCK HIM. -spoiler-
and ken? suck. my. dick. bitch. you better sleep with an eye open. meet me once and i'll go meddy perez on your ass you shrimp dicked shiteater. i hope your balls twist and tangle in each other and you die a slow painful death.
actually you know what, FUCK YOU TJR. first a love triangle in one true loves and now a book with a cheating trope??? how tf can you make me give them 5 stars!? how do you always manage to do the impossible!?
only this woman can make me scream, cry, laugh, sob, curse all in a fucking 71 page novella.
so fuck you for ruining my life by writing such fucked up stories.
ˋ✧*⁀➷ second read: this book should be renamed to Ryan Shay's Ultimate Guide To A Woman's Heart. nah cuz if a man asks for a memo, i'm giving him thisˋ✧*⁀➷ second read: this book should be renamed to Ryan Shay's Ultimate Guide To A Woman's Heart. nah cuz if a man asks for a memo, i'm giving him this. infact the government should gift free copies of this book to every man for the better progress of this society.
ˋ✧*⁀➷ first read:
"Sometimes history really means nothing when the right people walk into your life."
the perfect romance book doesn't exist- now it does.
this book is closest to perfection i can ever find in a romance book. i don't think i can point out a single flaw in this book even if i look for it with a magnifying glass.
lives were changed. souls were healed. tears were shed.
The Right Move is an epitome example of how a love story doesn't need to end in tragedies or have dramas to be epic and beautiful. it can be as simple as someone making a coffee for you. it can be as quiet as someone watering the plants for you. it can be as subtle as the person accepting the way you are, without trying to mould you to fit in societies expectations. "Sometimes, the quietest love is the loudest."
ryan shay... i'll never get tired gushing about this man...more
this is basically a story of the special twins getting battered, tortured, manhandled, humiliated, tossed around like a rag doll, assaulted and *almosthis is basically a story of the special twins getting battered, tortured, manhandled, humiliated, tossed around like a rag doll, assaulted and *almost* killed by OUR MCS- AND I HAVE NEVER FELT RAGE LIKE THIS BEFORE. LIKE WHY WOULD YOU WRITE THESE ATROCIOUS PURE EVIL CHARACTERS!?!? i too, like our twins darcy and tory, sweared to not let these bullies break us BUT WE FAILED. i was a crying mess at the end, humiliated and raging, screaming how can anyone be so fucking cruel, LIKE HOW CAN YOU MAKE ME FEEL ALL THESE FEELINGS THAT NEVER EXISTED!?!? i know this is a bully romance, and i love how the author made these bullies go full vicious and brutal on our girls, because that is how bullies are. THEY ARE NOT ROMANTIC. and till the very end these mcs were full on brutal and cruel to the point they almost killed Tory. AND I LOVE HOW TORY AND DARCY NEVER SUBMITTED TO THESE MOTHERFUCKERS EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MUCH MUCH POWERFUL THAN THEM- like let's goo girlies! i hate power imbalance and that's the problem i always face in bully romances but this series has headstrong, brave and relentless heroines AND I LOVE LOVEEE IT!! tory is my personal favourite but i like darcy too.
overall, this was the worst addicting book ever....more
alexa play Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince by taylor swift:
And I don't want you to go, I don't really wanna fight Cause nobody's gonna win, I thalexa play Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince by taylor swift:
And I don't want you to go, I don't really wanna fight Cause nobody's gonna win, I think you should come home And I'll never let you go, cause I know this is a fight That someday we're gonna win, just thought you should know. It's you and me, that's my whole world They whisper in the hallway, "She's a bad, bad girl" The whole school is rolling fake dice You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes It's you and me, there's nothing like this Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince.
no cuz the audacity of a ya book to steal my 5 stars.
"For ten years I thought I was preparing to destroy you, when really I was preparing to love you."
i kid you not this book is so scandalous. cuz me? a certified hater? an emotionless raging bitch? was screaming, crying, thrashing, giggling, blushing, heart banging, breath holding, eyelids taped to stay up till 5:30 in the morning to complete this book. HOW CONTROVERSIAL ...more
if books could hug, this would give the warmest and coziest of them all ❤️
this book wasn't anything special or surprising, yet there's something so exif books could hug, this would give the warmest and coziest of them all ❤️
this book wasn't anything special or surprising, yet there's something so extraordinary in the simplicity of this story, that it marvels me. the thing i like the most about mariana zapata is that she doesn't gush about writing pointless smut and over the moon love confessions. she isn't the part of the herd who loves writing about unrealistically swoony men that claim to die and kill for their women within the fifth chapter. she doesn't write about unbelievably naive women or damsels in distress who pretend to be so "broken" that they start talking in metaphors, expecting us readers to slow clap dramatically and rave about how "deep" their characters are.
nopes mz is not the part of this algorithm and that's why her books feel so different. that's why they hit so hard.
on the contrary, her strengths lies in her ability to write authentic dialogues. her characters speak in a way that feels natural, capturing the nuances of everyday conversations. the men aren't floored promising their women to buy moons and saturns, rather they feel... real, natural, beautiful❤️ they don't use fancy ass words to confess their love, it's in their subtle actions, the small touches, the inarticulated care and affection that makes it much more erotic than any smut i have read. everything is unspoken yet so vibrantly loud and clear.
"You’ve got the sweetest, kindest heart, Buddy. It wouldn’t matter what you looked like, you’d still be my angel."
if that isn't the man of your dreams then idk who is ...more
ˋ✧*⁀➷ review for the second half of the book. completed: 30th march, 2024. after 3 months lmao.
alexa play fix you by coldplay:
saving 6 is everythiˋ✧*⁀➷ review for the second half of the book. completed: 30th march, 2024. after 3 months lmao.
alexa play fix you by coldplay:
saving 6 is everything magnolia parks tried to be.
me everytime i opened this book: [image]
chloe walsh created joey after her son died, as a character who shares the same level of pain and anguish as she feels everyday. saving 6 is chloe walsh spilling her rage and insurmountable grief out on pages, and that is why it feels so different than the first two books. i can't even imagine bearing this level of pain irl. it's so fucking tragic ...more
ˋ✧*➷ third read: 17th july 2024. shannon is too pathetic for my liking, idk what i saw in her in the first place. my love for this book has tamed downˋ✧*➷ third read: 17th july 2024. shannon is too pathetic for my liking, idk what i saw in her in the first place. my love for this book has tamed down a little and all i can see is flaws, so i don't think i'll be re-reading it again anytime soon ...more
ˋ✧*⁀➷ ʙᴇᴛᴛʏ (Levi Ackerman's wife)
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