What Can I Say? I Love A Good Ship.

I’m annoyed that the third crescent city book got leaked for several reasons, but mostly because I’m rereading the first two books and desperately want to look at fanarts and theories and commentaries on those books, but I’ll be so disappointed if I get a spoiler for the next book so I’m just avoiding it. Like, it’s one thing to spoil a book series for yourself by engaging with fandom before you’ve finished the series, but having to avoid spoilers for a book that’s not even out yet… just a bit of a bummer really.

Ok so I’m doing my hosab reread, and a new tiny thing stuck out to me. There’s a moment where Hunt is on a job for Micah, and the target is begging for his life, saying ‘please’ and hunt notes that it’s always the same word, the same begging, though it never makes a difference. Then just a few chapters later, Bryce and hunt bump into Sabine who mouths off, and hunt wants to defend Bryce but she just looks at him and says ‘please’, gently, asking him to leave it. And he does. And I know the situations are different and blah blah but I think the fact that she’s asking hunt, not the umbra mortis, makes a difference. And the fact that he wants to defend her and yet yields when she asks him not to is important to Bryce. She hates the overprotective alpha types, she can take care of herself thank you. So if she wanted to defend herself against Sabine, she would. Idk the whole thing is sweet.

I have reached the ‘alpha holes’ spiel in crescent city and I feel like this is the author equivalent of tagging yourself in a meme before anyone else can because you just know someone is going to be like ‘this you?’ And Sarah is saying ‘ok, I have been known to write characters that perhaps vaguely match this description. But in my defence… it’s hot.’