Reasons why The Indigo Spell is my favorite Bloodlines book:
Witchcraft! So much cool witchy stuff!
Sydney and Adrian aren't together yet, and there's resisting and pining and oh, but they give in and make out every 50 pages or so
HOPPER THE TINY DEMON DRAGON
How much of a goner Sydney is from page one, she thinks about Adrian constantly and misses him the second they're apart, while telling herself that the idea that she's "already halfway in love with him" is crazy
How insanely bad Adrian is at "loving from afar"
Adrian making heart eyes at Sydney while she throws fire balls
Sydney watching Adrian paint and going MINE
Crossword in the airplane scene, just how well Adrian knows her
Sydney actively going against the Alchemists, questioning what they tell her and being resentful of how they used her
"His face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was probably about to happen."
THE DANCE
Oh no, I'm completely horrified at the idea of having to touch and dance with a vampire, I'm not thinking about when he kissed me at all
Sydney and Ms. Terwilliger actually developing a mentorship, Ms. T driving herself to the ground to protect Sydney and Sydney saving her
Talking about Ms. T: "He looks like he would do anything for you" She met him once! Captain of the ship! Well, Jill's first mate, anyway
Sydney and Adrian playing supernatural detectives!!!
The kiss at the college party
Adrian looks at Sydney's aura and almost explicitly states that she's demisexual
"I'm a quick study"
Alicia is a cool villain
Malachi Wolf is back and has a squirrel cookie jar, and Sydney can't wait to tell Adrian about it, momentarily forgetting she's supposedly leaving for Mexico
The whole melodramatic set up for their kiss and first date in the end is so, so Adrian, and he found a place Sydney would adore
If anyone wants to explain what their favorite book in the series is and why, please tag me :)
Adrian put his arm around my waist, perfectly proper and distant. I tried not to think about the last time I'd been in his arms. Even with appropriate spacing between us, our hands were still clasped, our stances still intimate. I was hyper-aware of every single place his fingers rested on my body. his touch was light and delicate but seemed to carry an extraordinary heat and intensity.
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He was a good dancer, which wasn't entirely a surprise. Adrian might be brash and impertinent, but he knew how to move. Maybe dance lessons had been part of growing up in an elite tier of Moroi society. Or maybe he was just naturally skilled at using his body. That kiss had certainly shown a fair amount of talent...
In case anyone is curious, my twitch bookclub and I have a running gag that Dimitri looks like Javier Bardem from No Country for Old Men, in case you want to know why he looks like THAT
Like I know Sydrian is endgame because I’ve read the series several times but I’ll never get over the potential enemies to lovers vibes Adrian and Marcus Finch have when meeting each other. I know they’re punching each other but one little kiss wouldn’t hurt. Just a little smooch
Chaotic annotations while reading Bloodlines (series). These are from all the books. Nothing has given me more joy than dumping all my thoughts in these annotations.
as much as I love Adrian ivashkov, if a man said to me what Adrian was telling Sydney on the plane at the start of the indigo spell I would be filing a restraining order
oh my god I forgot Adrian likes to use "Jet Steele" as a fake name 😭 and that pirate skeleton riding a motorbike tattoo with the skeleton parrot and ninja throwing stars 😭😭