Bizzyschoices

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Cassius Harlow, Gabriela Adalhard & MC

Book: Immortal Desires

Original characters belong to @playchoices

First there’s the plot ending:

Yes, this is the last scene of the book (unless you get the bonus scene). The book ends with MC randomly having been turned into a vampire, and if you buy every single talisman throughout the story, you get a bonus scene. In the bonus scene you find out MC was going to die, and that Cas and Gabe turned her without her consent while she was unconscious after never having discussed her being turned or her feelings on the matter before then. Then they didn’t get the chance to tell her until she figured it out on her own. And then once MC figured it out she’s like “cool, thanks for saving my life, no big on the vampire thing.”

Think I’m joking?

That’s literally the line.

And this is where the whole book ends, so MC never gets upset, never talks to them about it, nothing. She’s just totally cool with being turned into a vampire without her consent while she was unconscious.

Also, keep in mind, the entire explanation for why she’s suddenly a vampire is in the bonus scene, so unless you spend about 100 diamonds on all the talismans, you do not get this scene. The book just ends with MC suddenly becoming a vampire.

Then there’s the poly situation.

Throughout the entire book the romances are set up so that you can romance Cas, Gabe, or both of them together. And when I say together I don’t mean u can pick both of their scenes and just decide in the end, I mean there are multiple diamond scenes throughout the book where u can pick a romance scene that includes both of them together. It’s one or the other or both of them together throughout the entire story.

For example, this is the final diamond choice:

You can choose them both together.

Now what, do you ask, happens in this scene where they all three confess their feelings to each other? Cas and Gabe confess their feelings to MC who says “for now I can’t choose between you, I hope you’re okay with that.”

AND THEY ARE. They both say “you can’t choose right now and that’s fine.”

Think I’m joking?

The thing that makes me truly furious about this is that they spend the entire book focusing on the relationship these three develop together. They have diamond scenes together. They have romantic scenes together. And then in the end MC guiltily feels like she can’t decide between them???

They not only set up a poly relationship and didn’t follow it through, but they set up a poly relationship and then made MC feel guilty about wanting them both. If the entire book it had been framed as one or the other, I wouldn’t be so mad, but the entire book it was framed as one or the other or both together.

So to conclude: it’s a rushed ending plot wise, MC is turned against her consent and without her knowledge and is not only fine with it, but in fact grateful for the violation, and they spend an entire book purposefully setting up a poly relationship and then at the last minute force guilt on MC and make her choose.

I think Luke prefers writing stand-alones. He did not want RoD to get a sequel, Open Heart was a whole mess, etc. So I think he wrote ID and that is why a sequel was never in the cards.

The woman who has not been in the twins’ life for multiple years now suddenly wants full custody because her (legally gray area ex spouse)‘s fiancée went to Vegas for her bachelorette party and had a lap dance from a stripper? As is a very common cliche Vegas bachelorette activity? The same fiancée who previously helped raise the twins and was there when Addison wasn’t?

“You know…I could just kill him.”

- Cas Harlow, Immortal Desires

⬆️ Me every week while reading the new chapter of Immortal Desires.

selena is in the painting!

let me explain—

The Imprisoned, the painting Liam and his dad treasures, is a painting of Selena. This was heavily implied, and especially so in Liam route. See the painting paralleling Selena's childhood here.

In season one, Liam, Lilith, Josephine, and Mary trap people's souls in paintings. Note that Liam is adamant that the process does not kill the victims (press F for Rob), and they "get to live forever in the paintings."

Season three being set in the painting (or other paintings, perhaps?) could nicely tie in the season one mystery. Liam's dad (as a ghost), owner of the painting, also alluded to souls this update:

Part of Liam's soul? Where? In Valle Deliria? Could season two (the dryads, the world, everything) all be in a painting?

Another interesting thing is that death in Arcanum is not eternal (and not a cause for sadness, as repeatedly stressed in s2ch4). Death is just a pathway to another world with another test. This would explain the "lives forever in the paintings" bit.

𝓣𝓪𝓴𝓪𝓸 𝓝𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓸 ☄️

"... sorting through his different faces. A strict and wise teacher, a loyal friend, a masterful strategist, a jounin, a skilled magician..."

Princess Swap had so much potential and different avenues to explore throughout the first book and a potential second book. 

But damn did PB shoot themselves in the foot when they decided to focus SO much on that dumbass sorority and equally dumbass antagonist named Stephanie. I’m sorry, but I don’t think saving a sorority is equally comparable to stopping a 500 year old feud between two neighboring countries, but I guess saving a sorority is a bigger issue to PB.

And I mean no offense to those who love Devin. I do love his character and the whole sweet-homebody-down to earth personality, but compared to Clarke…PB just made him absolutely dry and flavorless. And you would think PB would give Clarke a little more since he had more in-depth characterization, but damn PB also wasted that too.

And unfortunately I saw ppl comment that they weren't spending diamonds on Devin and the sorority stuff so PB would know for book 2 that we want more clarke and royal stuff

I assume these same ppl don't understand how books get picked up for a 2nd book...lol