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I first read Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas when I was 15 years old

I reread it every winter.

The hero of the book, Sebastian St. Vincent, is like the pinnacle of hotness me despite the fact he's blonde, doesn't know how to fight, and is a total softboy.

Kev Merripen (Seduce Me at Sunrise - The Hathaways Series Book # 2):

"A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev’s searching fingertips. Win’s heartbeat … the pulse that sustained his universe."

John McKenna (Again the Magic - The Wallflowers Series Prequel):

“For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as much as I do.”

Rhys Winterborne (Marrying Winterborne - The Ravenels Series Book #2):

“I said, try it.” Rhys pushed from the desk and reached her with stunning quickness, caging her body with his and slamming the sides of his fists against the wall. The room vibrated. He glared into her shocked face. “Try to leave me, and see what happens. Go to France, go anywhere, and see how long it takes for me to reach you. Not five fucking minutes.” He took a few vehement breaths, his gaze locked on hers. “I love you. I’d let you stab a knife in my heart if it pleased you, and I’d lie there loving you until my last breath.”

Marcus, Lord Westcliff, Marsden (It Happened One Autumn - The Wallflower Series Book #2):

“No, I won’t try to browbeat you,” Marcus said gravely, though she saw a flicker of amusement in his eyes. “It’s obvious that such tactics wouldn’t work. I’ve met my match, it seems.”

Derek Craven (Dreaming of You - The Gamblers of Craven's Series Book#2):

“She’s mine,” Derek growled, and raised the club a few inches."

Rafe Bowman (A Wallflower Christmas):

"Ask me an hour from now. Ask me a month from now. A year, ten years, a lifetime. The way I love you will outlast every calendar, clock, and every toll of every bell that will ever be cast."

Matthew Swift (Scandal in Spring - The Wallflowers Series Book #4):

“Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits to your family’s home, those dinners and holidays—I could hardly wait to walk through the front door and see you.” The corners of his mouth quirked with reminiscent amusement. “You’ve always been everything I thought a woman should be. And I have wanted you every second of my life since we first met.”

Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent (Devin in Winter - The Wallflower Series Book #3):

“You said I could kiss you,” came his gentle, wicked whisper near her ear. “But, my love…you didn’t specify where.”

Simon Hunt (Secrets of a Summer Night - The Wallflowers Series Book #1):

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🤔😌😤⌨️ His name was Achilles Versailles Bastardchild de BoneAppletea, and at ten minutes of age he survived getting thrown to a pack of rabid chimneysweeps by his aristocratic parents. He was then adopted by his uncle/father/upperclassman/piano teacher/fencing instructor, Adonis Diddlemore, who DID NOT WAIT until his age was in double digits and spent the next odd ten years bullying poor Achilles for not being versed in the philosophy of Marquis de Sade well enough. At age eleven Achilles was admitted into an ELITE closed boarding school/public house/glue factory that trained professional catholic priests/live sculpting models/homosexuals/homophobes. The boy's brilliant blonde hair with a mind of its own shone like a thousand polished pimp rings, his rosy cheeks rivaled Barbie's convertible in juiciness and his condescending green orbs pierced the heart of a poor broom boy/noble heir/street urchin/prodigy violinist who only wanted to SAVE HIM

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I have finally read the Captive Prince series by C.S. Pacat and I swear I never liked a story that much. I still don't understand why I waited so long to read this masterpiece but what I knew was that I had to draw Damen and Laurent together

One that stands out is in Finale when Jacks enters Tella’s dream and tempts her to bite his apple. Apart from the very intriguing allusion to eve and the snake, this moment finally starts to make sense to me with the knowledge that apples in the north supposedly taste like true love.

When Jacks tries to get Tella to bite the apple, it’s him trying to convince her that they’re made for each other (or that she belongs to him). If she had bitten into the apple and tasted Jacks, we’d know for sure that they were each others true love. But she didn’t, and we’ll never find out what true love tastes like for her (probably Legend).

rant….solely about APPLES.

With the lil teaser via Stephanie:

“Apollo hated apples”

i’d like to state that this is sooooooo important to the breaking of the curse.

from the first book it’s established that Evangeline has a connection to Jacks… which I believe is stronger than true love to start his heart, but to break the archer/fox curse that has kill almost everyone he’s loved (Donatella being the exception).

Within the first 20 pages we are told that Jacks is her greatest heartbreak…

And then the motif continues once Evangeline gets to the North and well well well… the evidence is overwhelming. Not only is Jacks her biggest heartbreak (the past of his curse killing those he loved and the loss of her memory in the last book) but he is also her true love.

—-this we already know, but Evangeline will not… she will smell and taste the apples with a hinting sensations of love and affection but will not know what it means…

Further proof of her subconscious reminding her of Jacks

BUT

WHAT DO THE APPLES MEAN!??!?? To jacks.

truly I believe that since the apples taste like true love, they curb his instincts of kissing people to kill them- because all the fates can’t fight their feelings. So Jacks obsession with apples is just another form of his love for love but also his restriction to love anyone. Maybe he knows the apples taste like Evangeline…and that’s why “she’s better off not knowing” - to save her from kissing him and dying…

HIS IMPULSES BEING EVANGELINE??? I’ll die.

And lastly… Evangeline’s association with apples also causes… impulses too…

So, Apollo’s hatred of apples will send little alarm bells going off in her head/gut on her true feelings and memories. Maybe after coming into contact with Jacks again she’ll realize something is drawing her to him…

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And a bonus moment that is overlooked…