Favourite Cassie moment
My absolute favourite in the series has to be the revelation at the end of Hunt the Moon. It suddenly made everything fall into place and make sense, and rounded off a topic both highly relevant to the plot and very important to Cassie.
âMy power wasnât some alien thing, I thought, watching the sky in wonder. It wasnât borrowed from another or stolen from a better candidate. There was no better candidate; there never would be. It had flowed away from Myra as soon as it saw me, like the tide when the moon comes out. Because it was mineâit was mine; it knew it was mine.â – Karen Chance, Hunt the Moon.
The revelation had such a cathartic, enlightening effect (literally enlightening too, note KCâs pathetic fallacy in relation to the Moon in the scene), and as Cassieâs thoughts summarize, she has finally understood her place in the world, accepted her role as her own, and found herself. Such an amazingly pivotal moment, coming so surprisingly late in the series (book 5!), it really raises huge questions as to what other major bombshells the series has in store.
I view the whole series as Cassie learning who she is. Â i donât agree with all the romance people who see the triangle and root for one person or the other. Â Cassie is who I root for. Â And Cassie has a completely unique viewpoint. Â And as Cassie grows into her own, she going to keep making choices that make people mad. Â But in this book she realizes, finally, that it isnât about the party or the dress, or even who her mother is. Â Its about her. Â Its about finding that one place to stand. Â If you die, you die. Â But Cassie is the Pythia. Â Period. Â End of Report. Â F*ck everyone else. Â and we see more of that in the later books…I canât wait to see what happens next. Â And I totally root for Cassie when she says that she isnât releasing anyone from their pledges and no one is dying for her damn it!
[Top]Cassie and Pritkin and Mircea
So, this may make me unpopular BUT…I donât know who I want to see together.  There are plenty of reasons to hate both the men in Cassieâs life. They are each manipulative.  And Pritkin, well heâs actively trying to kill her for a really long time.  And then trying to sacrifice himself for her, because he doesnât know how to live without her.  Mircea isnât  always perfect and there is some hidden conspiracy involving the pythian court.  But Cassie wouldnât have made it through all the trials and tribulations of being Pythia without BOTH men.  And Mircea loves her.  He send her lots of family members and despite the power dynamic being fluid, he is always supportive.  And when he finds out all the stuff thatâs been happening–well vampires donât do fear well.  And yet, he loves her and doesnât apologize for it.  Pritkin may get there, but he isnât used to living at all.  Mircea has been the one left behind-by his mother, and by Dorinaâs mother.  He has struggled to raise a child alone and with no help.  So he tries to protect Cassie, is that so bad?  But he also keeps her out of the political shit too.  He hasnât turned her over to the consul, or ordered her away from Vegas. Â
And I gotta be honest, even when Pritkin is âsacrificingâ for Cassie its pretty self serving.  And yet…Heâs got that tragic hero vibe.  But I think Mircea gets a bad rap.  He is off trying to keep Cassie safe by staying away.  Cassie and Mircea could be a power couple.  I just don;t know where I want it to go…
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[Top]John Pritkin Appreciation Week – Favorite Book
Hunt the Moon
âItâs âI Love Rock ân Roll.â Itâs a classic.âÂ
That got me a dark glance thrown over his shoulder, but he didnât say anything. He just dug a couple of quarters out of his jeans and made a selection of his own. And oh, my God.Â
âJohnny Cash?â
[Top]John Pritkin Appreciation Week – Free Day
Pritkin + Aesthetic
âPritkin might be a hostile son of a bitch, but he was a damn good guy to have in a fight.â
âWho are they?ââ âYou said it,â she grimaced. âVampires.â âBut whose?â âWhose do you think?â Damn. never told him they couldââ âThey arenât Rayâs,â Claire said, looking at me funny. âWhose then?â She put her hands, both of which were back to normal, I was relieved to see, on her hips. âDid you or did you not tell Louis-Cesare that I needed domestic help?â âIâŚNot in so many words, no.â âWell, he interpreted it that way. They showed up a couple hours ago and took over. So far, theyâve done the laundry, mowed the yard, cleaned the house to within an inch of its lifeâdespite my telling them that the spell would just return everything to the way it was, anywayâshampooed the cats and replanted my marigolds!ââYour marigolds?â âThey said the lines werenât straight enough!â She looked pissed. No one gets points for telling a Virgo that she doesnât know how to keep house. âWhy didnât you just dismiss them?â I asked. âOh, now why didnât I think of that? Because they wouldnât let me! That vampire sent them to you and youâre the only one who can tell them to go. And thatâs exactly what youâre going to do! And then youâre going to march yourself back up here and get a bathââ âIâm doing nothing of theââ ââand then youâre going to get dressed and unpack that ridiculous bag and come downstairs again and weâre all going to have a nice meal, okay? â âNo, itâs not okay. Itâs not safeââ
duel. It was days like this that made me wonder how, even with his fighting ability, the guy had survived as long as he had. He was honest and honorable and ethical and generous, in a culture that was exactly none of those things. That didnât even value those things, because âgoodâ was a relative term and being a good vampire was to be like Marlowe: cunning, deceitful, ruthless, overwhelming. Or like Mircea: calm, patient, resourceful, relentless. âKindâ wasnât in the job description; âcompassionateâ even less so. Damn it, the man needed a keeper. Yeah, sure he did. A dark-haired, dimpled, dhampir keeper, which wasnât going to happen, so just shut up . Sometimes I didnât think it mattered what Mircea did in my head, because I was already crazy anyway. said resentfully. âQuoi?â I sighed. âIâm fine ,â I said, just wanting to get this over with. âI see what you mean,â he told Claire drily, and she blinked at him in what looked like surprise. There was no point in stalling, so I walked over and sat down, really glad that Iâd had that drink earlier. Even with Claireâs presence leeching the manic energy off my skin, like some kind of supernatural magnet, I was still crawling with it. Any other time, Iâd have been crawling the walls, tooâor, more likely, punching through them. As it was, I wanted this done