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TWO FEET AND A WINGBEAT oughfghdfjl my HEART I was honestly tearing up at how her motto slowly morphed over time, I totally called she would become a magpie shifter but it was so sweet how they handled it at the end there, reconciling her past and new lives and honouring the memory of all the things she lost waking up after the Freeze hjfkl,,,, , I have so many thoughts and NOBODY TO TALK TO ABOUT IT but man this book made me emotional a few times haha :'D

I LOVED Blake's arc and her struggles with the insecurity her ex's character-assassination left her with, as well as her sense of loss and bewilderment at the drastically different world she's been thrown into; the echoes of her trauma resound throughout the plot and it made me so sad every time she retreated back into her insecurities-- it was really well-written and struck a chord with my personal experiences :'>

also seeing how River changed over the course of the book and how he manages to break out of his circle of self-loathing and shame and guilt, and the trust that they build with eachother.... I really loved their whole relationship and the way their personalities and flaws and vices intertwine and bolster eachother's strengths/make up for eachother's shortcomings, it's going to be so hard going back to previous books in the series bc I just love these specific two so much (and the whole crow kettle honestly) and all the other couples feel less interesting to me personally, but I reckon I'll give one of the wolf shifter's books a go next so I can get context from the beginning especially after having spent nearly the whole book slowly piecing together SO many things and constantly flipping back like "wait so THAT's what that meant" lmao