#joscelin

Cassiel's Servant was a lovely read. Definitely stronger in the first half than the second but still served my favorite character from this book series well I think, and the end was very sweet. Honestly if she plans to do retellings of Chosen and Avatar as well I look forward to hearing what Messire Verreuil was up to in the middle of Chosen since due to his head being up his own arse about Phédre returning to Naamah's service (which... Dude, c'mon really? you knew what you were getting into!), he is absent for much of it.

“Nonetheless. I have sworn a vow.” “Not to Adonai,” replied the Sabaean captain. “Not to the Lord of Hosts, my friend.” “No.” Joscelin smiled, and in the rising light of dawn, his eyes were the blue of summer skies over the fields of Terre d’Ange. “To his once-faithful servant Cassiel, whose memory is more true than God’s. And I… I protect and serve.” Hanoch ben Hadad shook his bronze-helmed head. “It will be your death, D’Angeline.” “So be it.” At the sealed mouth of the temple, birds sang, the sun-warmed foliage released its green scent, and Joscelin Verreuil settled into a defensive stance, sounding almost careless. “It is the death I have spent a lifetime earning.” Kushiels Avatar, Carey