#faye ayeola carter

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The part that always gets me about the Legendborn series is Bree's family.

A mother makes a deal with a demon to save herself and her child, running from the man who assaulted her and owned her.

You can't argue with blood.

Her family's history is a story of black women doing the opposite of what those from the coloniser bloodlines do. They borrow, they ask, they beg. They sacrifice to save one another. Not for glory but for the hope of living in peace. But they can't because of that deal. The deal that saves and condemns the women who are of the Carter bloodline

Then you have the other families - those women in the order who hate that this black girl is king and Nick is in love with her. Bigots who refuse to follow her because they see her an accident or a 'fault' as opposed to recognising the slave owners in their circle.

Bree literally just wanted to know who hurt her mother and she is traumatised all over again, which is the experience of many of us when we find out our families' histories. It is rarely pretty.

And there are so many times you can tell she wants to run or give in.

Everything about this makes me sob omg.