🍁book.lover/hater 💋📖

“You did not give me a chance to choose my own destiny.”

“You wouldn’t have chosen me. ”

If asked, Dawson would stand witness to their marriage. He would offer them a place to live on the family estate, he would sit across the dinner table with them, and he would watch their children grow. And as he endured the torture, he would be happy for them and never show even a hint of the pain ripping his heart in little pieces.

I’d come to the part of the story I was truly not supposed to reveal. I swallowed thickly, the words stuck in my throat. It was amazing how embodied obedience was. Amazing how, even though sometimes I thought I hated my parents, their commandments still wormed their way so deep into my subconscious that obeying them was more muscle memory than choice. That had to be the worst kind of prison—the one whose bars were buried under your skin, invisible cages around your heart and mind.

📖 A Shadow in the Reaping, The Shadow Realm Book 1, by Brynne Weaver

🍂 Fantasy romance

🍂 Paranormal, Vampire, Demons, Witches

🍂Enemies to lovers

🧸

“I wish I could know it all. I’m afraid of what I can’t see. I’m afraid of what could reach out from beneath the layers of you to grab me and crush my heart.”

🔸

“I will not let anyone harm you. I promise you."

"You can't make promises like that, I whisper. No vows spoken by an immortal can be kept forever, you must know that by now. Promises are for mortals. They are meant to die with the bearer."

🧸

“To life after death...”

“To the promise of rebirth. And to the god who rules both.”

“Whether I stay or don’t, shouldn’t that be my choice?”

🍂

There’s something primal about seeing the God of Death covered in someone’s lifeblood, and it threads desire through me in a way it probably shouldn’t.

🍂

“You belong to me.”

I’ve never belonged anywhere, to anyone. I didn’t think I deserved to. But Thieran makes me believe I could.

Tgs: Fantasy dark romance, Hades and Persephone Retelling, serie

“Even if you’re no longer here, even if we’re not married, you’ll always be my queen and my equal.”

“Maybe I thought you would require assurance that just because I’m in love with you doesn’t mean I expect your love in return. Not yet, anyway. Perhaps not ever, though it would be nice.”

🍂🍂🍂

“I know it must seem strange and dark here compared to the upperworld, but for many of us, it’s a place to belong when we don’t fit in anywhere else.”

🍂🍂🍂

“Only you make me feel like this.”

“Wherever you are, whoever you end up with, I will never want anyone but you.”

Retelling, Hades y Persephone

The Sixteenth Need by Calia Read

Second chance romance, small town