"Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return." 
 "Remember this feeling, he told himself. Remember all you have to lose." 
 This book is just an evocative master piece. 
 These characters are just impossibly wonderful. Bardugo has created characters that are fleshed out and flawed, ready to jump out of the book and grab your heart. 
 I have not adored fictional people this much in ages! Inej and Wylan especially. 
 "She smiled then, her cheeks red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again." 
 Besides the absolutely unforgettable characters, I just adored the writing. Bardugo writes in the best way possible, giving us glimpses to infer emotions and things about the characters without telling us directly which is just boring. 
 "I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting." 
 The plot was engaging, thrilling and just so addictive with all its twists. Kaz Brekker is a genius, and I love how Bardugo wrote with layers and twists and that I always knew to expect the unexpected, but I could never predict what! 
 It took me long to read this series because I wasn't the biggest fan of her first series, but after this anything she writes I will desperately devour. 
 "Wasn't that what every girl dreamed? That she'd wake up and find herself a princess? Or blessed with magical powers and a grand destiny? Maybe there were people who lived those lives. [...] But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.That was how you survived when you weren't chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway."