#The Legendborn Cycle

[incorrect-legendborn-quotes]

*while searching for Ava*

Nick: Why are you still here?

William: Spite.

[bookcub]

i think it is unrealistic for fans to expect sequels to be published a year after the first one and also want the book at its highest quality. it's okay to expect a few years in between and i think it weird how much pressure authors face to publish their next book immediately. that's a lot of stress on authors and i think it often leads to books being put out before they are ready.

[chiaseedlingwithlove]

Nothing hits more than finishing a book and immediately opening tumblr to repost everything you’ve been avoiding

[mageofspace924]

HAPPY OATHBOUND 💜⚔️

literally shaking THIS IS IT!!! i cannot wait to finish my bloodmarked reread and dive in to oathbound 😭🫶 i cannot believe its here.

I got to make an overlay for the oathbound tour, im so glad people are starting to get them!!

LOVE YOU BREE I CANT WAIT TO SEE WHERE YOU GO NEXT (pls be safe)

[katsitsiyo]

Here’s a Legendborn Cycle piece I comm’d from the amazing @mageofspace924! (tysm!!)

Bree is one of my absolute favorite protagonists in any book I’ve ever read. 🥰 She, Sel, and Nick have some of the best interactions and chemistry. They’re all my fave bbs and I just want them all to be safe and able to live their lives happily together. 🥹🥹

[thejudeduarte]

Being part of a small fandom is liking every single post you see about it because on tumblr little to no people have actually read the books 😭

I'm totally not talking about powerless and legendborn

[kamaria-7]

I’m gonna need ten business days to recover……

[hahahax30]

I have so much fondness and love and awe and respect for Bree Matthews. The main character that she IS

[malakki142]

Bree: learns her own power, regains her agency, saves the Rootcrafter girls from her fate at the beginning of Bloodmarked, learns from past mistakes, that it is okay to put yourself first

Nick: Defends Bree while finessing the system that both subjugated him and gave him privilege, then uses his privilege to support Bree to the point where he's set ut up to sacrifice himself at the end.

Sel: Survives demonia, regains his own agency and desires outside of someone's weapon. Steps into his true legacy and heritage.

William: learns to put himself first, and that he is only human, he makes mistakes and has the grace to learn from them, truly learns what it means to be an ally

Mariah: learning how to step into her own power and not to hold herself to a higher standard, that she is enough and that she is powerful in her own right, readjusts her relationship with root and familial connections.

Natasia: a peek in on her and Faye's relationship, the complexity of her relatiinship with her son, the yearning and heartbreak can be translated to that of Sel's for Bree as they are Kingsmages not bout to their rightful charge.

Some of y'all, somehow: "Oathbound was just a bunch of filler."

Y'all must have been reading Oathbound from Alice's perspective.

[worth-this-and-more]

i lied. put your clothes back on. i'll tell you how selwyn fought so hard to keep from succumbing to his blood but then sacrificed his humanity for bree; and how this girl bree gave up her own freedom for a last desperate hope that sel could be saved by natasia.

[ghastlylover]

!!!OATHBOUND SPOILERS BELOW!!

What’s actually genuinely making me explode about Oathbound is how it’s made so fucking clear and explicit just how LOVED everyone is

How Natasia talks about Selwyn after thirteen years as she fights so hard to help him bc he’s her baby and she loves him

Even as he’s mocking and taunting and insulting them, all Bree and Nick do is reassure Sel that he’s not a failure or mistake bc even now even when Bree doesn’t remember him they LOVE him

When William learns about Nicks abuse and vows to be there for him and to never let him think that he isn’t believed in ever again bc he Loves him

When William neglects HIMSELF and Lark insists on going on the quest just to make sure he’s taken care of and protected bc william protects everyone but lark just wants him to be safe bc he Loves Him!!

All the years and decades of love between Valec and Mariah and Hazel and Lu bc they’re a family and have each other no matter what

And Everyone loves Bree!!!so much!!

Mariah, William, Lu and Hazel, Nick… all of them fought to get back to her because of how much they love her!!!

Sel being at the height of his demonia and still clawing and burning himself free to get back to her bc even when it’s warped under all the rage and darkness, he always loves her

Nick’s every word and act and breath being filled with love and affection and trust and call and response for Bree bc he will always find her and fight for her and always always always love her!!

Bree collapsing in her dads arms and sobbing after nearly a year without seeing

Bree fighting like absolute fucking hell to find four lost, scared black girls because that’s exactly who she is

Valec’s monologue near the end and everyone she cares about in one room talking about how beautiful Bree’s soul is because of how much SHE loves 🥺🥺

Like???? Love is the point babes, it was the whole point the entire fucking time

[black-is-beautiful18]

If someone asks for book recs for something similar to Sinners…do not recommend them Interview With The Vampire. Cuz what is wrong with you? Not only was Anne Rice racist but Louis is a slave owner and Lestat can care less about the slaves in the book. They literally feed off of them. Like y’all don’t think, and that’s a problem.

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Beloved by Tony Morrison

Kindred and Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

Lovecraft Country (show)

All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology edited by Circe Moskowitz

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele

These are the types of books you recommend people who want something similar to Sinners. They are asking for books that are about and by Black people with supernatural and horror elements. Heck even LegendBorn by Tracy Deon could be considered horror with the amount of stuff that goes down in that book. I need y’all to get a grip and get it fast.

[shuggyjiggy]

RAAAHHHH I MADE THEM INTO A STICKER

[retiredficwriter]

[iselenris]

i feel like if nick was to make it unquestionably clear that he wants sel, sel will just crash out because that.. the golden boy, his golden boy, the one he’s been oathed to since childhood (literally) wanting him, seeing him, loving him despite/because of it all, will go against his portrayal of himself.. how can light itself want darkness?

but Nick doesn’t see him as darkness and he never has.

[0theillusion0]

the sel pov in the fourth book is gonna hit like crack cocaine in the 80's good god I can not wait