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If you could make ONE (only one) book boyfriend real, have him as your life partner and live happily ever after with him, who would it be?

I looooove that this question is going around! Let me tell you, I have a clear and unwavering answer to this and it has remained unchanged since the moment I first laid eyes on the ink pressed into the paper describing this man.

Maxantarius Farlione.

I have to admit, I'm not sure why Daughter of No Worlds is not more popular. I mostly see Serpent and the Wings of Night being the most commonly discussed Carissa Broadbent book when it comes to the online space. But The War of Lost Hearts trilogy is one of the most sweeping, breath-taking, and beautifully written fantasy romances I have ever read.

Let me introduce you to Max:

Officially licensed art by: alicia.mb.art

I understand Max so deeply. He is no doubt a Virgo who just wants to live in peace in an isolated cottage and be left alone with his garden. But he also has a heart so full of love and loyalty, and is one of the most trustworthy, passionate (even if in his own cynical and reserved way) reliable, and green flag filled MMC's I have ever read.

This book completely altered my brain chemistry and made me love tropes I was usually neutral to or annoyed by because they were so well done: Grumpy x Sunshine, reluctant hero, ect. This man may want to live in peace and tend to his garden, but at the tiniest spark of meaningful hope and belief that things that change, he will throw down harder than anyone, even if he is a little cranky about it along the way. I genuinely would want to live my life alongside this man, and I can see us starting a non profit together providing artists and writers grants to fellow women and children like me who struggle with debilitated chronic illness and struggle to keep afloat in this capitalist hellhole in which we reside here in the US.

I feel like I'm just pitching this book now, but one of the things I love about Max and Tisaanah's relationship is the deep respect they have for each other. They believe in their cause and their fight because they believe in each other. They believe in a future of peace and safety and prosperity because they want the other to have it. They are both such incredible people in the eyes of the other, and it makes them believe in the greater good. Maybe that's cheesy to some, but I thought it was so beautiful.

Somehow Carissa Broadbent is able to weave the fight for bettering the world alongside all of these small tender moments that make it all worth it. It simply wouldn't work as well if they didn't look at each other like they paint the sky.

Anywho, here are some of my favorite Max moments:

"I figured you should have something both beautiful and functional, like you."

He said it so quickly that it almost didn't register. I whipped my head around to look at him. "Max," I breathed, touching my heart with exaggerated awe, "you think I'm functional?"

A dancing smile glinted in his eyes. "I think," he said, "that you are breathtakingly functional.

Our life settled into a pulse, a heartbeat, a collection of breaths. In the silence between them, I memorized the cadence of Max's barefoot steps padding down the hallways at night, the way one single muscle in his throat twitched when he was stressed, the whisper of a laugh that always followed one of my quips (however unfunny). I learned that one side of his smile aways started first - the left side, a fraction of a second before the right - and that he loved ginger tea above all else and the list of things he wasn't made for.

And, in turn, he quietly memorized me, too. I knew he did, because one day I realized he had long ago stopped asking me how I took my tea and we mysteriously always had a never-ending stock of raspberries, even though I knew he didn't like them.

The way I look at it", he said, very solemnly, so quietly that his words slipped into the air like steam, "you didn't forget what you were. I think you remembered. And I hope no one ever again has the fucking audacity to tell you otherwise.

I had forgotten that people could be that way. I had forgotten that someone, somewhere, was painting terrible pictures of their wife in a garden. I was so far gone that I didn't even remember that that kind of mundane contentment actually existed, least of all in the same moments as such terrible things. [...] I thought, 'Well. I can make a garden.'

He stepped outside, shivered, looked up at the sky, and declared, "I'm not made for this," before wandering back into the house.

I quickly learned that Max was apparently only "made for" an exceptionally narrow set of environments, temperatures, activities, and interactions.

I couldn't honestly go on forever. I could write every single thing Max has ever said in this Tumblr post. I love him, your Honor. And now my heart is aching and soaring, and it's time for me to do a reread.

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Max is the most relateable book charcter ever

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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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I yern for it

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Max is the most relateable book charcter ever

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Darrow O’Lykos - Golden Son

My interpretation of Darrow from Pierce Brown’s Red Rising series.

I’m hyperfixating, clearly.

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Rhys would sacrifice himself to save the world and let Feyre live

While Feyre would rather be no world than sacrifice him

And if there's no Feyre, there should be no world

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x / martha gellhorn

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GIVE HER BACK TO ME 😭 TAKE CRISTON COLE PLEASE

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Thinking today about how Rhys constantly uses his body to physically shield Feyre:

Acomaf, Chapter 49

Acomaf, Chapter 65

Acowar, Chapter 48

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Wondering if Cardan said “kiss me again, kiss me until im sick of it” because he’d never be sick of it and wanted Jude to never stop kissing him, but of course, he'd rather have her shoot him than admit anymore than how disgusting it is how often he thinks about her and can’t stop, and he can’t lie so really, he did his best to say ‘kiss me forever.’ Really though, give the boy some credit for being so clever

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Not to flex or anything but my boyfriend is reading throne of glass and annotating it for me so i can experience it again from the perspective of a first time reader

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Thinking about how Cardan loves like a mortal, not like a fae. Thinking about this line in Wicked King: “I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear.”

What Cardan said to Jude before their first kiss: “You are terrifying.” And the way he’s always smirking or mockingly smiling around her because he smiles when he’s nervous.

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The Holly Black faerie multiverse, commissioned piece for her Stolen Heir tour earlier this year. Can you name everyone in the picture?

I think you can still grab these prints here

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Your top fave things about Darrow? 💖

Oh, so many things, so these are just off the top of my head:

1. His willingness to do what needs to be done, even if it's ugly and messed up, and his awareness of it being ugly and messed up. He doesn't delude himself into thinking everything he does is noble and great.

2. His compassion, even if it causes him trouble a lot of the time.

3. His love for his friends and family.

4. His faith in Virginia.

5. His incredible drive and power of will that just keep him moving forward and fighting no matter what. He just won't quit.

6. How badass of a fighter/warrior he is. The way he just mows through his enemies is... well, frankly, it's pretty hot. Or basically his competency in general is really hot.

7. His sense of duty and responsibility to his people, to his troops, to the Republic. How dedicated he is to fighting for them, even at great personal cost.

8. This is a small thing, but I love the "Are you done? Yeah, you're done." thing he does sometimes when someone around him is throwing a tantrum. (Especially since when he's throwing a bit of a tantrum about Lysander in Light Bringer and he gets asked "Are you done?", his reply is "Yeah, done talking." For some reason, I find that hilarious.)

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darrow for three books straight

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Darrow in Lysander’s chapters:

Darrow in his own chapters: