all this twisted glory by tahereh mafi

Chu >//o//< ~~ 💋💕

Having an exam tomorrow wish me luck 😛😛🙏 ))

Aaron and Juliette - Shatter Me

Artist: @/eclipvze_art

Tahereh Mafi says fuck the cliché of the dark-haired villain / anti-hero, give way to these blonde and red-haired beauties instead !

Cyrus x Alizeh

Cyrus at the beginning of the book: No this is 100% a marriage of convenience, I will not touch you.

Cyrus literally a couple of hours later: wHaT dO YoU mEaN YOu wOn’T SleEp WitH mE??😭💔

warner: love

cyrus: angel

Currently building my case for Alizeh/Cyrus endgame

✿ a short review about this woven kingdom & these infinite threads. ✿

❥ alizeh has already become one of my favorite protagonists. she is extremely smart, articulate, and very kind. she has a strong personality, but that doesn’t stop her from being polite. she is also quite independent and knows how to make her choices clearly, even being empathetic the way she is. she’s refreshing in a sea of cliched female character archetypes. (really, the way she can butt heads with all the characters, including her romantic partners, is amazing to me. she doesn’t shy away from anyone.)

❥ kamran reminds me of adam, but he’s like an adam with personality. i was able to be moved by his feelings and feel empathy, but he is one of the most realistic monarch characters i have ever seen. his vision of the things that happen to him is extremely limited and summarized in his privileged life. it takes him a LONG time to understand that he can act entitled, and even then he doesn’t really understand. something that bothers me a lot about his romance with alizeh is how easily he discredits her even though he makes such passionate statements. he looks so volatile. although this is understandable given his position as a prince, his love is not convincing enough for me. he doesn’t need much to say that he wants to kill her, he never has concrete proof and always gets carried away by the situation. alizeh’s friends seem to have more affection for her than him, despite the intensity of his feelings and his passionate statements. (also, i think his feelings are almost one-sided since alizeh doesn’t spend much time thinking about him and there isn’t much romance in the first book.)

❥ cyrus is by far the most interesting character. mainly, perhaps, because we don’t know what his motivations are for doing what he did, he’s a box of surprises. he seems to have a lot of story to tell. and he’s so incredibly charming, being funny and provocative at the same time. he’s a pretty easy character to get attached to. his romance with alizeh, for me, is one of the best parts. in this book (as he only becomes relevant in the second book) alizeh reacts to him as intensely as he reacts to her. from the start, the two disarm each other with ease and it’s clearly mutual and something that seems to want to explode. the way he truly suffers for her from the beginning, and for his own choices in life, is quite moving and makes me hope that he has a happy ending with alizeh. there’s something of a forbidden romance here that is breathtakingly tragic, and i’m so excited to see what happens next!

❥ the mythology of these books was so interesting to me. the way tahereh developed it is cohesive and linear for me. i have always admired her writing, going back to the first shatter me books, but for me here it is just spectacular. although it is a fantasy book, it was very easy for me to understand the story and acquire a fluid reading pace. I’m looking forward to the conclusion of the saga!

cyrus going from ‘oh yeah this is an arranged marriage, a very unhappy miserable situation’ to ‘marry me, let me make you my queen, let me worship you’ - will i ever recover? probably not, thx

Cyrus x Alizeh

Cyrus at the beginning of the book: No this is 100% a marriage of convenience, I will not touch you.

Cyrus literally a couple of hours later: wHaT dO YoU mEaN YOu wOn’T SleEp WitH mE??😭💔

"juliette ferrars is annoying" stfu if you find yourself still waking up after running away from some sick experiment and your own parents send you to an asylum as a teen because they believe you're a danger to everyone and literally everyone is repulsed by you, i don't think you'd make it without going insane ☠️ of course she's scared to form a connection. of course she had a low self-esteem. that's easily understandable.

art by @coralie.renards

*whispers* did you know that people whose favourite trope is enemies to lovers are enticed by the idea of showing someone the worst parts of you and still having them love you

female characters are hella rad tbh: JULIETTE FERRARS I’ve finally gotten to a point in my life where I’m not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me. And I don’t want to lose that freedom–not again. I can’t go backward. I’d rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.