#sabaa tabir

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ok i genuinely didn’t think avitas harper would genuinely die. like on one hand i love that sabaa committed to this war takes lives thing but also he was everything to me. what the fuck actually

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Laia: Bitches out here be in love and crying over beautiful, impulsive, overprotective, grey eyed, muscular, incredibly tall, warrior boys, with a big heart, who makes bad decisions, but is great boyfriend and husband material

Laia:

Laia: It’s me. I’m bitches

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Tor.com Shows Us the 15 Books They Can’t Wait to Come Out in April and June CLICK TO SEE THE LIST AT TOR.COM. POCs on the list are Sabaa Tabir, C.F. Huang, C.L. Polk, and Yoon Ha Lee.

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Mid series Cover changes

So, they did the thing with An Ember in the Ashes, THEY REDESIGNED THE COVERS MID SERIES. And like I get it. As a brown girl, seeing a brown girl on the covers is pretty fucking cool! And the Fact that Sabaa Tabir insisted on finding models with the right ethnicities shows how much she cares. But I can't help it. My copies will not match, and I'm so goddamn angry about it.

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just finished reaper and it’s definitely the best book in the series by far. the first one was sooo ya and like. obviously it is but it made me remember why i don’t read ya as much, in the nicest way possible. it was good but wow some things made me oof. all my love to sabaa i’m reading this most because i love and respect her, but it was definitely a debut novel, y’know? second was better but still remnants of that. by reaper, she’s definitely more seasoned. it’s the first book i didn’t see all the plot twists coming and things genuinely caught me by surprise i was so thrilled with the plot. and the end?? chef’s kiss can’t wait for laia/helene bestfriendism. biggest critique is that at least one of the major characters should be gay. i think dex is actually but like is he gonna get anyone? who knows. also he’s not as important to me tbh. like faris and livvy obviously elias and laia (probably?? somehow??) helene and avitas (which i am actually a super huge fan of. not gonna lie. they’re so fun and i’m just obsessed with helene sorry blood shrike in general she’s arguably my favorite which i thought was surprising considering i was like omg finally a brown female lead. (lmao rip. i do love laia okay but of course she is who she is and who she is is slightly formulaic by nature of what kind of story this is. helene is just so complicated and fucked up. i love my fucked up girls.)) the whole thing with cook ??? with elias losing his humanity ?? oh homies we are really in it now because idk how besties will get out of this one, but i am having a blast. so obsessed with how elias changed to soul catcher in the middle in terms of chapter name. blood shrike caught me off guard at the start and this is even better. again the whole cook plotline?? yum finally some good fucking food. the twisty turnies the betrayals the fuckedupity. i’m just talking now and lost the plot of this post but i am genuinely soooooo excited for a sky beyond the storm

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“The tapping grows insistent, and I turn, intending to tell off the Cadet. Instead, I'm faced with a slave-girl looking up at me through impossibly long eyelashes. A heated, visceral shock flares through me at the clarity of her dark gold eyes. For a second, I forget my name. I've never seen her before, because if I had, I'd remember. Despite the heavy silver cuffs and high, painful-looking bun that mark all of Blackcliff's drudges, nothing about her says slave. Her black dress fits her like a glove, sliding over every curve in a way that makes more than one head turn. Her full lips and fine, straight nose would be the envy of most girls, Scholar or not. I stare at her, realize I'm staring, tell myself to stop staring, and then keep staring. My breath falters, and my body, traitor that is, tugs me forward until there are only inches between us.”

“You are my temple,” I murmur as I kneel beside her. “You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release.” Grandfather would scowl at me for sullying his beloved mantra so. But I prefer it this way.”

“For a moment I can see what we could have had: Laia and her books and patients, and me and a school that taught more than death and duty. A little one with gold eyes and glowing brown skin. The white in Laia’s hair one day, and the way her eyes will mellow and deepen and grow wiser” “An image of Laia and me in a house, making a life together, flashes through my mind. Could it be possible?”

“Before any of that, I—ah—have something for you.” He stops and lifts his hands to reveal an armlet—intricately carved with apricot blossoms and cherry blossoms and Tala blossoms, a veritable garden of fruit. Along the edges, in vivid script, he has inscribed the names of my family. Words fail me, and I reach out to take it, but he does not give it to me. Not yet. 

“I wish I could live a thousand lives so I could fall in love with you a thousand times,” he says. “But if all we get is this one, and I share it with you, then I will never want for anything, if—if you—would—if you—” He stops, hands gripped so tight around the armlet that I fear he’ll break it. 

“Yes. Yes.” I take it from him and put it on. “Yes!” I cannot say it enough. He pulls me up into a kiss that reminds me of why I want to spend my life with him, of all of the things I want with him. Adventures, I told him. Meals. Late nights. Rainy walks.”

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Here’s an old art commission I won more than a year ago that I’m still in love with! Thought it would be nice to share again! Commissioned by: @mel17641

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honestly it was also like. god. hasn’t helene lost enough?? she saw five members of her family get cut down and literally bleed our right in front of her eyes and partially “her fault”, in a way that even though it wasn’t really her fault, she still had to cope with blaming herself for it. and yes they have all lost so much, but not quite like her. not as much all at once, in front of her eyes. not as much as her failure to save them, which is how she will think of it. and i love all the characters but helene is so interesting to me. laia is lovely but she is the main character, and that comes with some things given. elias was the love interest, so of course i would love him. helene aquilla was the fucking wild card. she was the one i never saw coming. and though i have far more in common with laia, something about the blood shrike calls to me. she was always older than her years, stronger than she realized. everyone underestimated her, and she knew this. and she still underestimated herself. the strength she is made of. keris took her living metal and she is still better. and while laia is a testament that people are survivors, helene is a testament to surviving despite loss. laia was written to survive, and to survive loss. helene was written only to survive loss. laia is the grief of thousands. helene is the grief of just one. i am lucky at least in that the survival of many is not a concern. and though i have not experienced as much loss as either, i do feel a little like i have been in mourning for so very long. and helene is also a sign to me that i can get through it. that if i can hold back the darkness, light will find its way.

ok i genuinely didn’t think avitas harper would genuinely die. like on one hand i love that sabaa committed to this war takes lives thing but also he was everything to me. what the fuck actually