#louise and reid

[homerjacksons]

RIPPER STREET S03E07

[eve-to-adam]

“Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay.” — Serpent & Dove

[riddler-apologist]

all i have in life is big blue eyes and an unhealthy attachment to fictional characters

[a-strange-brain]

“Not all men”

You’re right, Reid Diggory would never.

[henrycavillary]

Serpent & Dove series | Shelby Mahurin

“Ask me no questions, mon amour , and I shall tell you no lies.”

[sarcasmiclife]

girls don't want boyfriends they want Reid Diggory

[starrynightsxo]

inspired by the serpent and dove trilogy :)

[andreai04]

Someday, I wouldn’t need to hoard Reid’s smiles, and someday, he wouldn’t need to ration them.

[pxmlx]

Officially done watching Ripper Street and I recommend it so much!!

I will take that laudanum tho @corpyburd

I will say that Susan Hart/Caitlin Swift is my favourite character (which tbh she probably should be just for being played by MyAnna) because she is such a complex character in my opinion. MyAnna plays her beautifully. I truly believe that she wanted to be a good person but basically every choice she made resulted in her being portrayed as this evil woman, which was especially hard to watch because in most scenes you could just see the pain and the anguish in her eyes, the scene with Jackson in season 3 is a great example of her being very aware of the situation she put herself in and showed her guilt over it. I loved her because even though she wanted to be a good person she was aware that she made choices ‘good’ people wouldn’t and she does a lot of good anyway but she doesn’t even take credit most of the time. In the end even though it pained me greatly I knew she would accept her fate and hang, which broke my heart because she was and is my favourite character.

And another thing, even though her relationship with Matthew was toxic, unhealthy most of the time (almost all of the time tbh) it was epic, I loved it. They were destined for one another and it shows. It was hard to watch when he was with another but I always knew that they would end up together anyway because, to me, he clearly loved her for the entire duration of the show even though they fought more than anything else. Every time they called each other by their original names I got so soft and giddy idk

Reid often annoyed me though 🙄 but even with that the show was still enjoyable, it’s amazing actually, I finished it and immediately started rewatching my favourite episodes that’s how captivating it is

[picturebookshelf]

I Am Canada: A Celebration (2006)

Story: Heather Patterson -- Art: Jeremy Tankard, Ruth Ohi, Barbara Reid, Jon Klassen, Marie-Louise Gay, Danielle Daniel, Ashley Spires, Geneviève Côté, Cale Atkinson, Doretta Groenendyk, Qin Leng, Eva Campbel, Irene Luxbacher

[lunas-worldofchaos]

i just started reading serpent and dove

and can we all agree louise and reid are just nina and matthias in slightly different fonts

[briggycat]

Minor Spoilers for The Scarlet Veil

So you’re telling me Jean Luc is still 100% weird and sexist??? After everything that happened in G&M???

Célie RUNNNN!!!!!

[pollyaunt]

ok so i just finished tsv within a day and I LOVE CELIE WITH MY ENTIRE BEING AND MICHAL AND THAT ENDING OH MY GOD and and and please jean luc is basically tamlin 2.0 all his development went down the drain so fuck him i hate him he can die <3

and lou, reid, beau, coco cameos were to DIE for but i hated that council scene it was so bad and all i wanted to do was rip off every person's head who hurt celie

[jessread-s]

Thanks to the Fable app and the publisher for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

✩ 🧛🏻🩸Review:

Mahurin’s newest release is one you’ll want to sink your teeth into! 

Picking up six months after where “Gods & Monsters” left off, “The Scarlet Veil” follows Célie Tremblay, the first female Chausseur, as she investigates a string of murders in Cesarine—all of the bodies drained of blood. When she stumbles upon the body of an old friend, however, the investigation becomes personal. Determined to avenge her friend, Célie attracts the attention of the killer and learns that he has special plans for her. 

I want to start off this review by talking about my love for Célie. I’ve always admired Lou from the “Serpent & Dove” trilogy for her courage and brazenness. But it wasn’t until I read from Célie’s point-of-view that I felt seen. As Mahurin so beautifully puts it, “she’s softer, more sensitive, even emotional” and she isn’t less strong because of it, as “strength comes in all shapes and sizes, and soft girls aren’t weak.” Célie is such a special character to me for that reason. I am the sensitive girl that feels so deeply. I see so much of myself in Célie and I’m so grateful to Mahurin for that. 

Another aspect of the book that I love so much is Célie and Michal’s relationship development. They are actually enemies turned lovers! Despite Michal being a vampire and Célie being a human, the two have fangtastic chemistry. Célie fights against it because she believes him to be a monster and she despises that she even feels drawn to him. Her inner turmoil creates sexual tension that is unmatched and left me craving more long after the novel’s end. 

As with her other novels, Mahurin’s world-building in “The Scarlet Veil” is captivating. She does a beautiful job explaining away the absence of the Éternals in her previous works and transporting the reader to the Isle of Requiem. I really enjoyed learning about the history, customs, and abilities associated with Mahurin’s vampires and could not get enough of the nightwalkers making up the ensemble cast. 

The element of mystery woven into Mahurin’s dark and fantastical world with the added bonus of vampires make this book my favorite of hers! It is so special and I hope that others will love it as much as I do!

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@epicreads

[mich-afr]

Gods & Monsters

Spiciness: 3/5

Romance: 4/5

Overall: 9/10

I just finished reading this book, and it was a significant step up from the second book. If you haven't seen the post about the second book, you should read it and caution spoilers ahead. The pacing in this book is phenomenal. We have plot twist after plot twist, and honestly, I love it. It keeps us on our toes, expecting one thing but then getting something completely different, which is impressive. They wanted to discuss various themes in this book. It didn't have as much of a religious theme as it usually did in past books. It was still there but less prominent than the past ones. The themes in this book are more about feminism and just Lou coping with everything that has happened with Ansel's death from the past book. She is possessed by Nicolina, revealed in the past book, which keeps you on the top of your toes until she eventually gets exercised. Reading was something else in this book. He's always been a comforting character and does something nobody would've expected. It gave us a chance to see them fall in love again, all over again, which is so beautiful, and they just like they let you see how even before they fell in love, and we didn't know that she was a witch chance to say that he knew that she was a witch. He would've fallen in love with her, so even though their relationship was based on a lie; we saw that he loved her, which is a beautiful thing in my opinion and a significant spoiler I'd like to say when Ansel comes back for the epilogue, and for when Lou was in melaconique Oh, I started crying like I'm over here. My eyes are swollen, such touching sand between Ansel and Lou because you say Ansel was in his final moments like you; you saw that he wanted to help and tried to protect. Still, in reality, he ended up dying; he's an entirely different perspective; when he told Lou that she feared living a life, I started crying because I was like, oh my god, this is so crazy; how is a dead person to get a towel in life person I had a life, but this is a thing that you see all the time when a deceased person or like a ghost or spirit comes back from I don't know like the dead I guess even if it's like a little like a dream I've seen the same not only in like books but also and TV shows, but that's a whole different other conversation. Even in the epilogue, where we see Ansel's point of you and we know the wedding, we see we meet a significant character overseen, and once you realize who that character is, it's so crazy. Some deaths are impactful. I don't want to say who, so I'm sad they are presumed dead. I hope that the duology from Celie’s point of view is as good as this one. I love Celie as a character in this book. She was given so much more character development than in the previous books, which I am also ready for. Even if we get to see her point of you, I want to see what happens with Coco and Bo, like we never were given that closure if they ended up getting together. Like, do they still just banter? Are they so get like I want to know, also, what happened between that time gap between the final battle and the epilogue? Are we ever going to figure it out? Are we ever going to be told? I don't want to get into what happened in the epilogue because I still have many questions, so maybe I may want to say what happens in that blog, but I don't want to spoil it.

[watersdeep]

Rereading Serpent & Dove again, and I forgot how fun this book was and how much I adored Reid and Ansel.