ive got 37 highlights and all of them are brand protecting rune and vice versa. crazy to know they just Dont get together like ever but i still love their relationship and how comfortable they are with each other. i do like addam !! but idk !! in comparison to brand .. Yeah.

this was so funny at the beginning (well, all the way thru) it took me by complete surprise how dark it got. i feel for rune so much and i am hoping he does get to heal more in the future and he opens up about his past more.

“He made you feel less than you were. So I broke his nose.“

“Brand hadn’t slept at all since I left. He had dark bags under both eyes.”

“Addam, you don’t have to hide how you feel about him. It’s not a contest. But just know—he’s mine to watch. That
will never change. Whatever happens between you is going to include me.”

“But if you or your people ever leave Brand outside that protection again like you did downstairs—when it would have been so easy to save him as well—I swear, on my name, by binding oath, that we are done.”

“But.” I held out my hands to him in a helpless gesture. “This needs to happen. You know that.”

“Then find a way I can go with you!”

LIKEEE ???????? Idk the buzz is there and i can try my very best to deny it and accept the ‘they’re just very close and comfortable with each other’ thing (which i do love!!!!) but i cant just pretend as if all these lines arent Insane.

alright let me actually talk abt something else here .. I loved the pace of this book!!!! it was nonstop!! like there was not a single dull moment or a boring scene, it was all action. loved all the monsters and the creatures and the magic system even tho it was a bit complicated. i loved that this was set in like current time and had a bunch of pop culture references, like idk it was so silly but so fitting, like rune’s love for coffee and how he sucks at using phones