nikyjaimes19

A scar. Cal with a scar. He gets it at the end of RQ in the Bowl of Bones. A big ass, face-altering scar.

I actually think Victoria Aveyard books reflect in a better way the traumas and problems from their characters. There's also a difference in the vocabulary and plot. I'm sad for not liking SJM books, because the concept is good but the way she deals with it is not good in my opinion.

concept: Red Queen but make it high fantasy

“How old are you anyway?”

“Would you like to guess?”

I glance at the apartment, the comfortable clearly used furnishings, the painting hanging by the balcony in front of me that looks suspiciously like a real Rembrandt I saw in a museum once when I went to New York with Shade and Farley to visit the upstate coven. The place feels like it has been lived in often, and has been treated well in that time.

“One hundred and fifty.” I test, with a quirk of my lips as I glance at him over my shoulder. He looks up from what he’s doing in the kitchen to raise a brow at me.

“I’m flattered.”

My stomach drops, and I spin to face him, taking the sheet with me as I hold it up to my bare chest. “Two hundred.”

“Getting warmer, but your still very cold.”

“Two seventy.” I narrow my eyes when he smiles at me.

“Again. Warmer.”

I keep my shock to a simple glare as I guess again. “Three hundred.”

“Again, flattered.”

“Am I any closer?”

“You’re certainly warmer.”

Ignoring the sheet and letting it fall, I lean forward to haltingly say, “four hundred?”

“In the ballpark.” His eyes seem to dance with laughter as he returns to the bed with a large white mug of coffee. I hesitate to take it as he turns his back to me. I trace the lines my nails left that are practically healed now, wondering how many other cuts and scars have healed on his body in over four hundred years.

Gripping the mug tight enough to make my fingers ache I ask, “four fifty?” I bring the cup up to drink in order to hide the way my lips twist in shock. I halt from drinking though when I get a whiff of the steam waving off of it. It’s rich coffee, better than what I was overcharged for at the cafe. And it’s already the perfect caramel color that suggests the exact amount of cream I want is in there. I could simply sit smelling it and be content.

“Almost.” He opens the fridge again, and stands back to observe the options while I mull over his answer.

“Four eighty?”

“Keep going.”

“You can’t be serious.” I whisper.

Where can I find this? What's the name of the story? I need this!!!!

And I want to know about the other two projects you just mentioned! What are those (Project Nightshade and OtHatH) about?

For example, Shade finds a hole into Erilea and gets trapped and ends up living Lysandra’s life and gets a boy as an acolyte. Would he do the same thing as Lysandra, and how would he react to it after all is said and done.

From throneofglass.fandom.com

Inside the apartment, Aelin shows Evangeline her favorite place to sit. She gives her permission to read some of the books in the apartment or eat a blueberry tart from the kitchen, offering her the choice of which to do. Lysandra watches her with motherly affection as Evangeline politely accepts the offer of the tart and vanishes into the kitchen.

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After Lysandra gives Aelin the letter, Aelin orders her to leave. Evangeline reappears; Lysandra tenderly wraps an arm around her. Lysandra exits the apartment, but Evangeline stays and recounts her own story to Aelin. She tells the assassin that when her mother sold her to Madame Clarisse, she cried so heavily that she made herself sick. Clarisse assigned Evangeline to Lysandra, who Evangeline figured must have irritated Clarisse that particular day since Lysandra was weeks away from paying off her debts and freeing herself. Lysandra cleaned her up and told her that she couldn't run away (as Lysandra had tried, failed, and consequently been punished brutally for fleeing) but that there was another way to escape the awful fate of a prostitute. Evangeline accepted the proposition, declaring that she would do anything to evade the suffering of the other girls. Lysandra cut her cheeks and began screaming in feigned fury to convince the others that she had injured Evangeline in a fit of rage. When confronted, Lysandra stated that she had hurt Evangeline out of fear that the girl would be a threat. As a result, Lysandra was beaten violently, though she did not cry. Clarisse then required Lysandra to buy Evangeline at the price she would have been worth as a full courtesan, forcing Lysandra into many more years of prostitution. (Lysandra later reveals that as Evangeline grows, Clarisse increases the debt for Evangeline, claiming that someone so beautiful would be worth much more than she originally told Lysandra.)

SO... uh... funny story nonnie 👁👄👁💧 I have to disclose that I never read past book 2. So I have no idea who Lysandra is or who Evangeline is. I am currently waging a one sided war with SJM (it's me, it's mostly me hating her)... she and I... we do not see eye to eye on many things. And the Throne of Glass series is one of them. I have been begged by numerous friends to finish it with claims that it gets better, but I have negative desire to do that. I put out for it at first because I loved the idea that she pitched the story as which was pretty much: "what if Cinderella went to the ball to kill the prince?" But lol, Alien or Celena or whatever her name was, never did anything remotely like that. It pissed me off too cause I was super excited for an original telling like that, and all I got was the same old stuff. Also, I just dont like her writing, it bothers me. XD My hatred for Throne of Glass is the reason I am writing my own trilogy/series. I pretty much chucked book two across my room and said fuck this I can do this better than her. And proceeded to spend the last 6ish years trying to do just that. So full disclosure, I have negative understanding of this ask but I'll try my best to answer.

I tried, no one can say I didn't try. First I tried with Throne of Glass, because I liked the idea of the assassin entering in a competition of assasins. Like... THAT WAS A HELL OF AN INTERESTING PLOT. But as I went on... It was too slow. But it wasn't slow as in "it tells you emotions and shows you how the world and characters work", not it wasn't 😑. I didn't finished it.

Then I tried the ACOTAR series. That one had potential, but ended up disappointing me. Mostly because it tried to depict grey characters but at the end it was just an story with good guys and bad guys. It would have been fine if it weren't for all the recommendations people made about it being a depiction of the evolution of love, from a toxic to a healthy relationship. It wasn't. The protagonist just ended up in a relationship as fucked up as in the first case, but it wasn't so visible (which it's more dangerous if you ask me). I got allllll that from just the first and second from the ACOTAR series, so I gave up.

Note: I edited this meme, cause I like pumpkin pie and I love the story! 🥧

Note: I edited this meme, cause I like pumpkin pie and I love the story! 🥧

Characters belong to and heights are provided by @vaveyard

Mare and Cal:

Maven and Iris:

Shade and Farley:

Samos siblings:

Barrow siblings:

Barrow family:

Calore family:

Calore brothers with their wifeys

Main characters:

Bree - 195 cm/ 6"5 ft

Cal - 189 cm/ 6"2-6"3 ft

Tramy - 188 cm/ 6"2 ft

Tolly - 188 cm/ 6"2 ft

Pa Barrow - 185 cm/ 6"1 ft

Tiberias VI - 183 cm/ 6 ft

Shade - 183 cm/ 6 ft

Kilorn - 182 cm/ 6 ft

Farley - 180 cm/ 5"11 ft

Maven - 175 cm/ 5"9 ft

Iris - 173 cm/ 5"8 ft

Evangeline - 167 cm/ 5"6 ft

Elara - 165 cm/ 5"5 ft

Mare - 158 cm/ 5"2-5"3 ft

Ma Barrow - 155 cm/ 5"1 ft