#the blood gift

[scarlethoodi]

Ikenna Amari in The Blood Gift

[checkoutmybookshelf]

A reminder from Ikenna to get us through Monday. Because we all stand before monsters, and sometimes it's nice to have a reminder that we are strong enough to fight them and win.

Conquer Monday, y'all.

[shxpeshifterr]

[ihavetosays-blog]

The Blood Gift by N.E. Davenport (The Blood Gift Duology #2)

SYNOPSIS Ikenna and her team are traveling Iludu looking for allies who can provide soldiers after being named enemies of the state by Mareen. Ikenna is a wanted fugitive for being blood gifted and everyone else has a bounty on their head for vacating their positions as Praetorians and harboring (working with) a fugitive. This news doesn’t change the team’s goal: to kill the Blood Empire who is…

[demigods-posts]

imagine percy swimming to the bottom of the ocean. not to save a group of sea creatures. not to show off his skillset. and not to prance around as the sea god's favorite son. but to join the ocean in all that it is. laying in the soft sand and watching the fish swim by. the lobsters making space for him as he rests his head against a patch of seaweed. him laughing at the irony. imagine percy making small talk with all the different sea creatures and assigning them names. him actually running into a whale he named phillip who's on his way to propose to his boyfriend. and percy wishing him good luck and offering his blessing on their union. imagine percy making small talk with the starfish about his favorite dinosaur. and explaining to the collective group what a dinosaur is and why they don't need to worry about them reaching the bottom of the ocean. just. percy immersiving himself in all that's aquatic because it's where he can be his most self.

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[princema-k]

requested by @nikolutke! what horror is the boy peepin

[wombywoo]

/my head is bloody, but unbowed/

[lokoja]

Book 2 😮‍💨

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Blood Gift | Author: N.E. Davenport | Publisher: Harper Voyager (2023)

[rosemariecawkwell]

TBR Pile Review: The Blood Gift, by N.E. Davenport

Format: 420 pages, HardcoverPublished: April 1, 2022 by Harper VoyagerISBN: 9780008640088 In this stunning conclusion to N. E. Davenport’s fast-paced, action-packed sci-fantasy duology, elite warrior Ikenna and her rogue cohort must outrun bounty hunters, their former comrades, and a megalomaniacal demi-god, all in the hopes of saving their friends and enemies from the racist and misogynistic…

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Please excuse me for a sec while I swoon over this man...

We have no choice but to stan Darius Reed.

[avephelis]

@t3rm1n0s yo this concert kind of ass

[fairandfatalasfair]

What was it Edwin had said? “I think you’ll find there is little left of me that has not been overtaken by Hell.” He’s had seventy-three years of dying, alone. (And one death, just one, cradled in Charles’ arms.)

From Ghosts and Monsters by @justafandomfollower

[ihavetosays-blog]

The Blood Trials by N.E. Davenport (The Blood Gift Duology #1)

SYNOPSIS Ikenna lost her grandfather, the Legatus Commander, a few months before graduating from the Academy. Grief-stricken at his unexpected loss, she decides to put on hold their dream of her becoming a Praetorian, a special ops soldier. When an old family friend says he suspects her grandfather was murdered by his second in command, she decides to go through with becoming a Praetorian and…

[bunnieswithknives]

How much can you fit under your skin?

For @warning-heckboop's AU :3