yes, Matt has said that the last four books would be a four part story and it’s good to know hes got started setting up clues and giving us stuff to make tinfoil hat theories about. I have a few theories that i am probably going to talk about on this blog with in the next couple of weeks

I think she would have thought about the implications, Lily is a pretty smart kid and learns that:

a) Dion was a sleaze bag (he literally threatened all her loved ones with death and later said that her life would be a ‘misery’ if they got married) and 

b) the royals aren’t good people (because they are basically the people of the capital from the hunger games)

There is no upside to this for her at all, so I figure she had that sinking feeling of dread in the pit of her gut, which is part of how she bonds with Iolanthe in the book; they both are used as pawns in various ways by various people and hate it intensely 

I like Hades as a character, i think he has a lot of potential to be really interesting, but it was a dick move to not let her have a say in what was going to be her future. Though at that point Hades was still oblivious to the fact that his kids where douche-bags of the highest order and thought that Lily and Dion were friends

Though I also feel that Lily was very confident that Jack would somehow stop it because if Lily has learn anything about Jack, it’s that he’s a goddamn force of nature and no-one can stop him when he’s on a mission. Jack is unstoppable and while he doesn’t want to be involved, he will fight to the end if you involve him, which is proven in this book.

and now both of Jack and parents have prevented a ‘Marriage’ that Lily didn’t want, which is pretty cool to me, and a neat little parallel which I am 78% sure was unintentional.

Warning! SPOILERS FOR 4LK in both the description on AO3 and in the story itself. A missing scene from the end of the book, concerning the two main heroes and the everything they’ve just been through.