#promises and pomegranates

[critical-quoter]

You cannot love a person fully without knowing the darkness etched into their soul. I want to know his so well that it becomes my darkness, too.

Promises and Pomegranates - Sav R Miller

[kiximagery]

Promises and Pomegranates by Sav R Miller

it was ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ across the bored and 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Everything about this book was just incredible I instantly fell in love with both MCs and how they acted towards each other this definitely is my favorite so far ( bit of a late review I’m on the third book now 😅)

Favorite quotes:

* “My soulmate, My fucking queen, My little Persephone”

* “You cannot love a person fully without knowing the darkness etched into their soul”

* “ No saviors here,” he says, teeth grazing my forehead. “Just me, your husband, dragging you to Hell with him.”

* “That she came back to me. The beast’s beauty. Hades and Persephone”

[terrible-romance-reviews]

Ok so i just finished reading Promises and Pomegranates by uhhhh

*looks at smudged writing on hand*

Sav R. Miller

And i gotta say,

Not that bad actually. Like, there were some loose plot threads but it wasn't heinous.

However

What the actual fuck was with the constant insessant horny like it felt like every other page was smut while I was being drip fed the story where is my solid, concrete plot??

The more I think about this one the less plot i feel like there actually was, just like. Some character backstory and some serious misunderstandings and communication issues.

Spoilers ahead so stop reading if you actually want to read the book BUT

You got, a lot of background on Kallum, our "Hades" male lead, which, if i didnt already mention, this is a loosely hades persephone inspired romance. By saying this, there is a whole conflict point that we are actively leading up to is that Elena, our Persephone, has a narcissistic mother who fucked Kallum over a decade ago and groomed him??? Elena's youngest sister quite literally makes a groomer joke about the whole situation.

Unlike A Touch Of Darkness though, symbolism actually means something in this book, and things aren't typically mentioned simply for the sake of being there, save for pomegranates, but even THAT was because Kallum began calling Elena persephone, so she got a tattoo right under the fucking tit, she was genuinely obsessed.

I enjoyed the fact that we switched persepctives and it was established who's perspective we were reading each chapter, that was pretty good.

Also pretty good was the obvious enjoyment of bloodplay and marking?? Someone as your own. Very big possessiveness and jealousy issues in this whole book.

Elena also had her fiance murdered, right in front of her, and then got forced to marry Kallum right in front of the corpse of her husband. Kinda fucked up but later established that that DIDNT EVEN FUCKING TRAUMATIZE HER.

In fact, not a single death seems to traumatize anyone in the book. Because. Reasons I fucking guess.

What does kind of traumatize Elena specifically, who was the main reciever of traumatic events happening to her, such as, assult twice, finding out her husband fucked her mom, from her drunk narcissistic mom, getting kidnapped, you know. The works. What does not feel like it is properly touched on, is how that trauma affects her. It is like, kind of addressed? But not in any way that felt accurate.

And of course I know I cant expect the world from a trashy romance novel, it will not stop me from complaining at every chance I get.

Book was a solid like, 6.5 out of 10. Smut was great, characters were shallow, plot was attempted and kept up throughout the entire book, female lead wasn't completely insufferable! Not bad at all.

[bugdews]

i like this au a normal amount (twitching )

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[eyes-of-nine]

drywall. I'm going to start eating drywall

[thenothlng]

where did you guys get those. guys

up-close shot cause i draw everything so fucking big or whateva

everyone say i love you beatriz and i love you vincent

[weakinthekneez]

"cannibalism as a metaphor" "dogs as a metaphor" "pomegranates/food as a metaphor" PLEASE JUST WATCH NBC'S HANNIBAL

[maya-thepsychic]

illi mcmillin my beloved<3333

[cozyflowerbed]

Husk is a walking mushroom encyclopedia. You may doubt him on many things, but never underestimate his knowledge on mushrooms.

[demon-baby666]

Absolutely no regrets on my recent book haul 🫣😇🥰🖤

[xyilusha]

so, I came back again a week later, and made a couple of drawings

randomly fact: Nankidai (the creator of YTTD) created almost all the floor masters based on desserts, for example, Sue Miley is based on banana with chocolate, and gashu in the original design had chocolate chips on the shoulders, but they forgot to draw them. and on this occasion I depicted dark choco in the image of a chocolate figure of a king in chess, and just for fun, maybe I will make a pomegranate in this image, she is a queen 😋

[endlessnightmaress]

Favourite dark romance books/movies

Favorite dark romance books would definitely have to be Haunting Adeline and Promises & Promegrantes.

Dark romance movie would definitely be The Resident

[m1ckeyb3rry]

OMG I HAD BRIEFLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT GOJOS DEATH can you believe its already been 3 months since then.... but now hear me out, imagine how much worse it would be for gojo if sukuna got to kill y/n... Gojo would have lost both the people he considers family the most (megumi and y/n) and most likely NOBODY could bring them back... furthermore the guilt he'd feel not being able to protect her. What if.. she fell.... and he failed to catch her... ahahah...

NO FOR REAL it’s only been three months but it’s also been three months which is insane 😭 and uhhhhh gulp not to #spoil the ending of my own fic but what if i said that you’re not too far off the mark…in a sense anyways

[solarpunkani]

Me 2 days ago: im not gonna buy yarn to make a fuckin pomegranate

Me at the store: which color red is best for pomegranate

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Promised Land

A land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, A land of olive trees and honey — Deuteronomy 8:8 | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Cross References: Genesis 49:11; Deuteronomy 8:7; Deuteronomy 8:9; Deuteronomy 32:13