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⭐⭐⭐⭐.25

Thank you so much for this ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts. Spoiler-free review:

This book was a lot of fun, it had all the elements I adore in a Cora Rose book. It was SO romantic, it was SO cute, Maverick's love for Skye was everything, and I absolutely adored the strong intimacy. I will say, however, that the book might've been 5 stars had two elements been handled differently:

- At some point, there is a weird scene-change near the end that I felt disrupted the tone of the story. We were in such a different setting that was so different from where we'd spent the whole story, and it felt pretty jarring and kind of like a waste of time, to be honest. I just didn't get why we needed to go there, it felt so unnecessary and it was pretty uninteresting, in my opinion.

- This was definitely my biggest issue in the book, and that was the third-act climax. It's a personal pet peeve, but I despise when a character actively does not want to do something, and yet they do it anyway for no real reason just for the sake of drama. It just feels like one of the worst YA tropes, and these characters are adults. I don't understand why they didn't just communicate. I love drama in a story, but in this case, and without spoiling things, the drama wasn't even outside factors, it was just characters... making bad choices for the sake of creating drama, and that just feels... I'm sorry, lazy and boring, personally. There was someone already kind of threatening the couple and their happiness, that person could've been the source of the drama instead of having the characters be needlessly immature, with neither of them properly talking about their feelings, and it was just frustrating and uninteresting to me.

This was as addictive as the rest of Rose's stories. It has the intimacy, the romance, ROB! (,,╥﹏╥,,) I love you, Rob! You are the true MVP, Rob!! ( ˶˘ ³˘(ˊᗜˋ*)!♡ And ohhh my gosh, those final few chapters were everything (๑♡⌓♡๑) Now THAT is interesting drama and angst, I loved every second, I loved how emotional and fun and meaningful it all was, I just loved it all (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) I'm so glad I own a copy of this book which I will happily be coming back to reread (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ

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SHADOWHUNTERS 2x18 - "Awake, Arise, or Be Forever Fallen" (2017) Dir. Amanda Row

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Two kinds of people.

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Shadowhunters 3.12

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MAGNUS BANE and ALEC LIGHTWOOD Shadowhunters (2016-2019) 3.12

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malec kisses

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*cracky humor ahead*

Alec, while reading a magazine: "Mundanes are weird."

Jace: "Why this time?"

Alec: "There is a quiz here that is supposed to determine how good of a 'Bro' your best friend is. 'Would your bro help you lie to your significant other if you were cheating on them?' Would you lie to Magnus if I was cheating on him?"

Jace: "Yeah, sure, I would cover for you."

Alec: ".... How dare you. You would lie to Magnus and let me betray his trust? Hurt the most precious man on earth? ... I'm not talking to you for the rest of the day." *gets up and leaves.*

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he made his choice

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Nearly bursted a lung while watching this panel

Also on tiktok

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happy 8 years to the scene of all time

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"It'll be alright" Malec kissing in the rain for my weak heart. No watermark only on patreon

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further proof, in my opinion, that fans love drama in a series and want it, but can tell the difference between cheap drama for drama's sake where characters are done dirty by the writers, and actually interesting drama that explores characters' feelings, mental state, and history in very entertaining and inspiring ways.

writing fanfiction is just fingers clenching over a keyboard as you ferally mutter i just want this little guy to be held, damn it and proceeding to hurt said little guy (gn) for at least 20k words before you actually give them their hug

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The breath of relief of being in each others arms again. ❤️😭

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The more time that goes on and I sit with all the malex moments from the show... the more I worry that if I actually sit down to write another long fic, it will just be Alex choosing someone else because he deserved so much better than what he got 🫣

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Do you realise the tremendous effort Henry needed to do to whisper, "No, I'm not okay," when until that moment he's been taught to swallow those unnatural feelings and denied his depression???

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tfw your crush walks in

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I fell in love with a person, and that person happens to be a man. And that man happens to be a prince.