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*Dorian and Aelin lying on the floor*

Manon: What’s wrong with them?

Rowan: They realized they can’t read all of the books in existence.

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I would die for Heir of Fire or Queen of Shadows in Rowan’s POV! Or Empire of Storms!

Also! I can’t with all these TOG content on my feed 😭😭 I just wanna read the whole thing again!

"Don't do that. Don't— don't touch me like that " -QOS by sjm

ROWAN BROKE MY HEART IN THIS SCENE

And I knew... I really knew that he didn't mean to act like that because it was obvious that he felt something for Aelin.

Later I understood how miserable he felt when he realised that finally he started to feel alive again, through love, when his mate and his baby were dead.

Sjm usually doesn't explore in depth the man trauma in her books (Rhys- just a certain lvl, Hunt, Fenrys, Lucien...) but I would love to see her write more about it in her future books because I trust in her way of writing and explaining and develope things.

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😭😭 I sobbed like a baby!

There’s no series like TOG and this is the hill I’m gonna die on

The way reading The Assassin’s Blade makes every little thing in Queen of Shadows that much more meaningful … like why am I crying about lavender soap? Bffr

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I MISS THIS GIRL SO SO SO MUCH!

My hero, my inspiration! MY QUEEN! 👸

Aelin Ashryver Galathynius — Nameless is My Price.

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I’m sorry but no couple in literary history will ever hold up to them! Aelin and Rowan rule us all!

Hottest Sjm couple 🔥🔥🔥 art by @inkfaeart

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“You can call me Rowan. That’s all you need to know.” He cocked his head to the side, a predator assessing his prey. “Thank you for the oil,” he added. “My skin was a little dry.”

Aelin, Arobynn and Rowan - Throne of Glass

Artist: @snowarox / @devnw

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I’ve figured it out! Carissa changed publishers (thank you to the person on twitter that actually told me 😅) so there’s in fact a new edition coming out at the end of the year!

I’ve read them all on my tablet though! It was worth it!

Ok so while I wait for SJM to release another book I've reading a lot of stuff! I haven't posted any reviews because im just being incredibly lazy 😅 I just wanna read!

So I've read the whole Shatter Me series and now I'm at the end of The Serpent and the Wings of Night, which it's surprisingly good! But here's the thing! Ive been trying to buy the books (i've been reading on the iPad but my eyes are killing me) and for the life of me I cannot find them! I have the first one coming next week but the second one it's nowhere to be found. Is it sold out everywhere? Is there a new edition coming? Because on amazon its available for pre-sale only but the book come out last year (I think). What is going on?!

#books #bookblr #carissa broadbent #crowns of nyaxia #oraya x raihn #oraya nightborn #raihn ashraj

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Ok so while I wait for SJM to release another book I've reading a lot of stuff! I haven't posted any reviews because im just being incredibly lazy 😅 I just wanna read!

So I've read the whole Shatter Me series and now I'm at the end of The Serpent and the Wings of Night, which it's surprisingly good! But here's the thing! Ive been trying to buy the books (i've been reading on the iPad but my eyes are killing me) and for the life of me I cannot find them! I have the first one coming next week but the second one it's nowhere to be found. Is it sold out everywhere? Is there a new edition coming? Because on amazon its available for pre-sale only but the book come out last year (I think). What is going on?!

#carissa broadbent #crowns of nyaxia #the serpent and the wings of night #the ashes and the star cursed king #oraya nightborn #oraya x raihn #raihn ashraj

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I see posts like this and it makes me think there’s still hope and that not all people have gone to the dark side.

Let people be free to draw, write, paint, create and like whatever they like. That’s suppose to be the whole point!

I have to scream into the void here because I’m feeling very down today.

Yesterday, two wonderful fanartists were driven from the community by toxic SJM fans. Several others have announced they’re no longer drawing for SJM series as a result.

The bullying in this fandom is so widespread and rampant that it’s inevitable that all artists, writers, and fans will be the target of it at some point. Is this really the kind of community we want to be?

I love the Maasverse. SJM is my favorite author, but since I’ve started writing for Fourth Wing, I can’t imagine going back to SJM. The Fourth Wing fans have been so encouraging and welcoming. I get nothing but love and good vibes from my readers. They always make me feel valued in a way I never got from the SJM fandom.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We can do better.

We need to do better.

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YESSS! This! So much this!

Sometimes I feel like I’m part of the few people in this fandom who is obsessed with these books in a normal way.

I love Rhys and Nesta. I love Azriel and Lucien and Mor and Elain. I love Cassian and Amren and Varian. I love Gwyn. I love Emerie. I love Jurian. I love Vassa! I love everyone.

I ship Elain and Azriel, and I believe they’re going to get the next book. I love Elriel but I also really love what Elucien could be and I read Elucien fic and make art for them. I’ve read Gwynriel fics because my amazing writer friends wrote them, and they are incredible.

I love some characters a lot more than others for sure, but I’ve never dedicated my entire blog to being anti-anything.

I hope this reaches the right audience. I want to make more friends who like and ship different things than me because I love seeing why people enjoy them so much. If something makes you happy, hell yeah I wanna know why!

This isn’t a joke. I want to be friends with people who have different likes than me. But every time I go and follow someone who likes a different ship than me, their blog is full of negativity towards everything and everyone else. :(

I want to fill my feed with nothing but positivity. If this is calls to you, hi. Let’s be friends!

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Lets be honest, Lidia carried the book!

Sorry babe but so far the real protagonist of hofas is QUEEN LIDIA CERVOS 🛐🛐🛐

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I saw this on my timeline and was completely speechless for a while… the world has really gone to shit…

This is not acceptable, this is not okay. You are free to ship whoever you want in peace and like whatever character you want. I can only repeat the words of the post. Do not encourage this. This is not okay.

Ship, read and enjoy whatever book and character you like! And let others have the freedom to do the same. You don’t like it, you don’t share the same opinion, you can express your sentiment in a respectful and considerate manner, scroll down! It’s not that hard. Don’t harm other people just because they have different opinions and tastes from you!

What happened to this fucking world 🤦‍♀️

I'm sorry...what?

How is this acceptable?

Regardless of what characters you like, or what ships you prefer, if you promote this kind of behavior - YOU are the problem.

We are talking about fictional characters and threatening to doxx people over them, bringing shipping (which should be harmless) into a situation where it has real-life implications.

You want to doxx someone for what? To see them get hurt? Harassed? And you're doing this in a fandom full of women - many of which have found solace and escapism in these books where a woman escapes her abuser.

You are promoting this behavior?

As a fandom, honestly do better. Don't encourage this. Don't encourage toxicity.

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I don’t particularly care about who Elain ends up with but this is very interesting point!

*SPOILERS FOR HOFAS* (even though it's been like almost 2 months guys get on it 🤨🤨)

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So the Cauldron was wrong 🤩 Isn't that something?

And by wrong, we mean it was corrupted by the Asteri / Daglan to create the most powerful offspring. Not necessarily bonds that are of the soul or formed by love or whatever. Not saying this CAN'T also be the case, two things can be true at once, but for sure-confirmed-the Asteri tampered with the Cauldron to fix pairings that would produce powerful offspring (for them to snack on, I guess).

What does that mean? Does it mean every single mating bond currently out there is wrong and created only for the purpose of the most powerful offspring?

No. Not necessarily.

We don't really know where mating bonds come from. The Cauldron, the Mother, etc.

Just based off the fact that Feyre or Rhys didn't go into the cauldron, I think their bond is not from the cauldron. Could it still be called into question? Maybe, but I think it's been shown they would've chosen each other regardless of the bond.

But Elain & Nesta, their mating bonds were only revealed after they were dumped out of the Cauldron. Could we say that their mating bonds were given to them by the Cauldron and are therefore tampered with?

Perhaps. That's a solid possibility.

The thing is, Cassian had a feeling as soon as he met Nesta in ACOMAF that she was his mate. He felt something before she even went into the cauldron. So maybe their bond existed before the cauldron, meaning they don't have a cauldron-given bond either.

Now let's look at Elain.

Elain's mating bond with Lucien was revealed as soon as she came out of the Cauldron.

You can argue that "oh he showed mate behavior and stepped toward her before she went in" but so did Tamlin. Tamlin said stop, Tamlin lunged for the King. So there's no way to discern whether Lucien also voicing his anger was "mate behavior" or Lucien genuinely being upset that Ianthe sold them out and kidnapped Feyre's sisters. Not if everyone in the room also reacted the same way.

Elain was in enough distress and struggling as it was. Lucien did not feel the bond snap and realize she was his mate then. Not until after she went into the cauldron.

I think just from the order of events, it's logical to conclude the Elucien bond is Cauldron-given. Not saying it's 100% true or right, but it's a plausible theory. Who's to say that if Elain & Lucien had crossed paths before the Cauldron incident, maybe Lucien would have felt the same attraction and feeling as Cassian had towards Nesta. Things did not play out that way, though, so we can't make that conclusion yet.

So to recap, here's what we have discovered:

Cauldron = Wrong

Feysand bond = Not Cauldron-given

Nessian bond = Not Cauldron-given

Elucien bond = Cauldron-given

Let's do some simple math. If the cauldron is wrong, and the Elucien bond is technically the only one that's Cauldron-given... wouldn't it mean theirs is the only one that is wrong?

And yes, I am aware, I have a huge Elriel bias. But the Elucien mating bond being wrong doesn't automatically make Elriel mates or anything. It just means there is something sketch about their bond. It is not like the others, and we can see that through the sheer way it has been written in the text since it was revealed.

Lucien & Elain avoid each other. Are uncomfortable around each other. Don't talk, don't communicate, can barely even be in the same room, are attracted to other people.

Did we see ANY of that from Feysand & Nessian?

I stand by my statement. One of these is not like the others: Elucien is not like the Feysand & Nessian bond. And it's not just because we haven't received their POVs. It's because:

"what if the cauldron was wrong" - voiced by multiple characters, and confirmed in HOFAS

"Why not make them mates" - Feyre, when she refers to Azriel and Elain

"Can you reject a bond?" - Again, Feyre when she considers how incompatible Elucien is. "she cringed when she thought of Elain subjected to that... fire"

Nesta observing Azriel's secret, the charged glances between the two

Nesta being so protective of Elain but allowing her to go with Azriel without protest

"death and the lovely fawn" - endorsement from the High Lady herself

"What happens if someone rejects their mate? What if the forces put you to be with the wrong person? It offers a lot to explore this concept of free will vs. true love" - SJM herself, on the today show.

But i thought it was obvious 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Ok... so before people come at me... here is a Feysand post. 😂

I find this one specifically so lovely. 💓 Also is the most complex one I've ever made.

***also the Tamlin's tears wine 😭😂😂

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Destroy me Review (a lot late)

As I said, I'm giving these books a try after struggling with the first one. This is actually a very late review, since I finished this little one a few days ago, but hey, better late than never. I haven't been posting quotes because I struggle with the authors writing so it's incredibly difficult to find quotes that I like more than others. However, this one was a pleasant surprise!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️and a half

This is going to be short because the book itself is short! I did enjoy this one a little more than the first book. Warner is one of my favorite characters so far, and getting that background of the relationship with his father and the abuse he suffered and still suffers at his hands was quite interesting. I'm enjoying the levels of Warner's character, there's a lot of complexity in that young man. Not all bad, not all good. It compels me enough to keep going and keep reading the books (I'm actually at the end of the second one).

Also, I'm still not entirely sure of what kind of feelings Warner has for Juliette, however, the way he connected with her journal was incredibly powerful and moving.

Let's see how the second main one goes!

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