#not that i'm under an impression that anyone is waiting with bated breath for me to finish that liveblog

[terpia]

I think I may finally be ready to read Assassin's Fate. Reading The Left Hand of Darkness made my ROTE brainworms return something fierce, and as a result I started re-reading all my fav parts of all the Fitz books, as happens periodically. However this time, I'm mentally set to find out how his adventure ends (I mean do already have a general idea of how it ends because I've never been that careful about avoiding spoilers, but I don't know that much about specifics).

The only issue with that is a self-imposed one. I created the foolinandfitzin sideblog to document my way through re-reading the first eight Fitz books in the series before getting to the final one (as well as the Rain Wild Chronicles, which I also still haven't read - more on this in a sec). However, my liveblog abruptly stopped in the middle of book 3 - I tried picking it up again, however I decided I won't publish more posts until I'm fully done with the book and can be sure I will actually finish the liveblog this time.

I don't want that to stop me from reading Assassin's Fate, however I still would like to liveblog at least some of my experience of reading it for the first time. So my plan is this - I will read Assassin's Fate now and make posts as I go along (although you probs won't see them until I'm mostly/fully done with the book anyway). This will satisfy my current itch, but will not be a fully complete experience - since I haven't read the Rain Wild Chronicles yet, I expect I will be quite confused/lost by some of the things going on with the characters related to that series. THEN, after I finished Assassin's Fate, I will go back to the other books in the series, including the Chronicles, so that when I get to the Assassin's Fate again I can do a re-read with the full context of what happened in the Rain Wild books.

At least that's my plan for now - I definitely still want to finish my book 3 liveblog since I don't like leaving it unfinished, but may very well decide that I'm done with liveblogging the books after that, at least for a while.

[lindwyvrm]

[ 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 ] : sender has just told receiver "you belong to me". (i'm sorry in advance) (please don't let this ruin your opinion of him ivy he's just a little Stupid) (diamant look away)

Hand over his heart, face alright with love infatuation, Laslow dares to make his boldest declaration yet.

"My lady, I've heard the message in the stars themselves. Your heart belongs to mine! May I take you out to dinner in celebration of this gods-blessed romance?"

Any other woman would’ve slapped him mid-sentence.

But Ivy lets him speak, waiting with bated breath for his next words, each syllable more flowery and fantastical than the last. He speaks like a teenager’s first love poem come to life. Her eyebrows rise higher and higher — eventually disappearing into her bangs — as Laslow proclaims his love for her on this nondescript afternoon. He is practically glowing; Ivy wonders if anyone had ever believed the things he proclaimed as earnestly as he did.

“...belongs to you?” Ivy repeats, tone middling between amusement and incredulity. The proclamation is so bold it nearly makes her laugh. “Is that so?”

She tilts her head, mimicking curiosity. “In Elusia, marriages forged from love are only between those who are lucky or stupid. Is dinner all you have to offer? The last suitor who asked for my heart offered me a mountain’s weight in gold.”

Ivy smiles, bringing a hand under her chin. “I expect dinner to impress.”