Here‘s how I‘m doing on the #realmofelderlings buddy read since I haven‘t talked about it in a while. I‘m behind on this buddy read too. I‘ve only read the prologue of this book. I haven‘t had time to read this book because I have too many books in progress. It‘s okay if I take my time with these books though because this is a 16 book series and all of the books are over 500 pages so it‘ll probably take 2 years to finish reading these books.
pickI fear I don‘t have the words to describe how I feel about this trilogy. I was immersed in this world for the last few weeks as I devoured all 3 books every chance I got. The characters are so well written, the magic intriguing and unique, the setting beautifully described. I felt so much for these characters, and had my heart broken for their sake countless times. There were also loving, tender moments and suspenseful battle scenes. Continued ⬇️
“I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.”
“Mine had been a long and weary road, but I still dared to believe that at the end of it there might be a life of my own choosing.”
“Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day. Of all the things I had ever had to give up simply by virtue of the blood I carried, that was the dearest.”
💔💔💔🥺🥺🥺
“I could hear the faint sounds of the merrymaking. Closer to hand were the now-unfamiliar creakings and settling of a building, the sounds of folk moving in other rooms of the inn. They made me nervous, as the wind through the branches of a forest, or the gurgling of the river close by my sleeping spot, had not. I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.”
“…the companionship of a beast…to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.”
pickBook 2 in this trilogy only made me cry once (versus 3 times with book 1 😭). This series already has me in a chokehold. I felt myself completely immersed in this world and so worried for the characters. I really hate the antagonist and I can‘t wait to see the MC go head to head with him. It ended on a cliffhanger, so off to start book 3!
“Time is no miser when one lives always in the now.”
