oh gosh, this novella made me appreciate and love these characters so much more. Like we got to see how hail and merissa met, how merissa met Gabriel’s father and how he sacrificed his life for the both of them 🥺. Then our sweet Geraldine, to see her undying love and devotion to Tory and Darcy was so precious and sweet, because little did they know that they gained the most loyal and fierce best friend simply because they existed. And looking back, I feel so bad for Geraldine that they first pushed her away, but I’m so happy they finally recognized and cherished her 🥲. Also, it felt so good seeing Elise, Leon, Dante, Ryder and Gabriel all together again, they are my absolute favorite in the solaria world, and I could reread their story a million times and never get tired of it. Y’all, that ending with each of the heirs pledging their lives to the twins 🤭🤭. I just know the final book is going to be so good 👏👏. 

 

 

“I saw myself enraptured with this woman, desiring her more deeply than I had ever desired anything. She looked at me the way no one had ever looked at me, with a love that seemed to defy everything I was and ever could be.” (Hail) 

 

“She looked exactly like I imagined a star would look if it shifted into Fae form.” (Hail) 

 

“The air between us was starting to feel impossible to breathe, like the only source of oxygen lay within her and I needed to draw it from her mouth into my very lungs to survive.” (Hail) 

 

“I was going to let her guide me into this madness, even if it led me down a doomed path, because whether she was a trickster or not, I was too far under her spell to turn back now.” (Hail) 

 

“Do you know what she said to me in Cardinal Magic yesterday? That I couldn’t even diddle a dandelion if it bloomed beneath my fiddlestick and told me where to put it. What the fuck does that even mean?” (Max) 

“Yeah, she’s nutso, man.” (Seth) 

“I could diddle a dandelion.” (Max) 

 

“I’m always good when you’re close, Cal. Don’t ever disappear on me.” (Seth) 

“I won’t.” (Caleb) 

 

“Oh glorious queens who were lost for so long, Where have you been all this time you were gone? I wished on a star for a miracle to come, And now you've returned, I know I got one. I missed you more than words can say, And I pledge my devotion to you on this day.” (Geraldine) 

 

“You're not drinking?” (Darcy) 

“No.” (Lance) 

<i>You free my mind more than any drink ever has.</i> 

 

“She was all my favourite summer delights, sunshine, strawberries and ecstasy.” (Lance) 

 

“What are you two whispering about?” (Seth) 

“I was just telling Darius how well your mom took it last night.” (Lance 🤣) 

“You motherfucker.” (Seth) 

“Yeah, that’s me.” (Lance) 

 

“She tasted of sunlight, igniting my world in colour again at last, and I never wanted to return to the grey.” (Lance) 

 

“She was a creature designed to ruin me, and in that moment, I would have let any fate befall me just to keep her.” (Lance) 

 

“Since when have you had a praise kink?” (Caleb) 

“Only when Darius does it. He has that whole dominant, ‘shove me around the bedroom’ vibe going, and sometimes I think he might even be able to do it to me if the mood took him.” (Seth) 

“I could shove you around the bedroom if the mood took me.” (Caleb) 

“Nah, Cal. You’re pretty and all, but you don’t scream ‘dominant daddy’ to me the same way that Dari-” (Seth) 

*caleb literally slams him down and grabs his throat* 

“Call me pretty again.” 

“So fucking pretty.” 

“Good pup.” 

 

“I was hers. I was all fucking hers and she had to accept me. She had to or I was going to shatter into a million pieces which would never be the same again.” (Darius) 

 

“I remember one time, our old professor locked me and him in a shed on campus for detention and cast a spell that meant we had to power share to get out. That was the first time Ryder admitted he loved me.” (Leon) 

“What? I did no such fucking thing, Mufasa. You kept trying to power fuck me.” (Ryder) 

“To what?” (Tory) 

“You kept telling me to put the tip of my power in you.” (Ryder 🤣) 

 

“Deep down, I knew why I liked this place so much. Even more than because I was a Werewolf and I worshipped her every night. It was because Cal had been the one to buy the moon for me. And somehow, I would find a way to buy him the whole world in return.” (Seth) 

 

“But I had no doubt now, that this had always been our destiny, to kneel before them and lay our lives in service to the Phoenix queens.” (Seth) 

 

“Long live the True Queens!” (Geraldine)