Reviews - Elias & Laia - Das Leuchten hinter dem Sturm

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Elias & Laia - Das Leuchten hinter dem Sturm

« Tell her she must live »
(written in english by a french girl, please forgive my mistakes)

‘A Sky beyond the Storm’ or how to break me...
I never said it but since atatn, Avitas Harper lives in my mind rent free, and since aratg he definitely owns my heart. He spoke twice but still, I love him with my whole heart. I got spoiled, and I knew he was gonna die. I knew it. And still, I read sky. I knew what was gonna happen, and how I would feel about it. It happened. As planned. And I was sobbing through the whole book. Literally.
Helene and Harper own my heart and soul since the North Man. The content we got was precious, delicious and true and I just can’t get over it.
I still can’t bare Laia, the way she’s always complaining about her losses and in the end, winning everything and getting all the recognition. I know she suffered and she’s right to feel sad etc. But so many characters have suffered loss in aeita. Actually, all of them. They all loved and lost, and still, she’s the only one always talking about the things she’s lost and complaining. Helene. Elias. Harper. Dex. Faris. Quin. Mamie Rila. Mirra. Musa. Even Keris. All of them lost and suffered, but stayed strong and saw what was good left. Laia didn’t go through, and I can only call strong those who recovered from intense pain. It is really hard for me to consider Laia strong (no hate for that pls).
Otherwise, there are so many deaths, but the way most of them are made to break helene ? Faris, Livia, Harper (+ all the ones she lost previously). And Darrin, and Keris.

This book left me broken, but I’m still grateful to Sabaa for bringing these characters to life (next time pls, keep Avitas Harper alive, safe and happy w the love of his life aka helene)

For my heleneharper shippers out there, here are some moments... if you know you know.

« ‘I know what you need, Shrike.’ He runs a hand up my arm, so careful despite his anger. ‘I want you to ask for it.’
I need you to disappear. To never leave. I need to have never met you, or felt you. You. You. You. I need you. »

« ‘When I was in the tunnels,’ I say, ‘And I thought I was going to die, I thought about you.’
[...]
‘But when I was crawling through that tunnel, when I knew he was fighting and dying for me, all I could think was that I was so thankful it wasn’t you up there. Because if it had been, we would have died together.’ »

« My mind snags on one word : Fearless. For I am not fearless. To be fearless means to have a heart of steel. But my heart betrayed itself. It is soft and hopeful. And I know now, that it belongs entirely to Avitas Harper. No matter how I wish to deny it, my reaction when I thought him dead tells me I am fully, foolishly in love with him. He is the weak spot in my armor, the flaw in my defense. »

« ‘Helene.’ He tilts my face toward him, and as our bodies come together, as I cry out his name, my fingers digging in his back at the ache of him inside of me, he says it again, and again. Until I am the Blood Shrike no longer, but simply Helene. His Helene. »

« I cannot quite look at him when I say it. ‘May death claim me first.’
‘Ah, no, my love’ he gathers me close. ‘You cannot go first. I could not make sense of the world if you did.’ »

Emifal Firdaant, I beg the skies. Emifal Firdaant.

If you’ve made it until there, thank you :) <3