Reading Journey

Title	The Isles of the Gods
Author	Amie Kaufman
Publisher	Random House Children's Books
Isbn	9780593479308
Percent	99.9%

Highlights

Date	Chapter	Percent	Color	Quote	Note
July 13, 2023 00:23	Selly	98.0%	#FFB	Sometimes he barely seems to know where he is, or that I’m there at all.
July 13, 2023 00:23	Jude	97.9%	#FFB	Then she turns her gaze toward me, and her eyes are pure, glowing green.
July 13, 2023 00:22	Selly	97.1%	#FFB	Jude’s expression closes over, and he steps back into the shadows.
July 13, 2023 00:20	Selly	97.0%	#FFB	I let him lead me, waiting to see what he’ll do, and though he gives no sign of a command, or even of seeing his surroundings, the black stone around us starts to twist and melt.	Y’know how Anselm had that other dude with him, like the lover guy? I bet that guy “controlled” Anselm like Selly will with Leander
July 13, 2023 00:20	Selly	96.9%	#FFB	“I think he’s a Messenger,” he manages.
July 13, 2023 00:20	Selly	96.9%	#FFB	Like King Anselm, the first king who sacrificed himself.
July 13, 2023 00:20	Selly	96.7%	#FFB	Leander’s eyes are no longer brown—they’re pure green, not a hint of white showing. They’re glowing with magic, and tiny bolts of it leap between us, like sparks before a storm. And then I catch sight of my arms and the backs of my hands.
July 13, 2023 00:19	Selly	96.3%	#FFB	It’s Leander. And he’s incandescent.
July 13, 2023 00:17	Laskia	95.4%	#FFB	“Macean!” I scream, and everything is in my voice—my rage, my devotion, my conviction. “For you!”
July 13, 2023 00:17	Selly	95.0%	#FFB	“I place my faith in you. I make my sacrifice to you. Grow strong, and stand strong in your role as Sentinel. Keep Macean bound in sleep, and let my people—let all our people—live in peace.”
July 13, 2023 00:16	Selly	95.0%	#FFB	“I wish we’d had more time, Selly. I wanted to teach you to dance.”	Leander I swear you’re not doing this or so help me
July 13, 2023 00:14	Jude	93.7%	#FFB	But I still have a few more pages of my story left to write, and I’m the one who’ll choose what they say. Even if I’m writing my own ending.
July 13, 2023 00:13	Jude	93.4%	#FFB	scrawl all over the things I wanted to say and do.
July 13, 2023 00:13	Jude	93.3%	#FFB	But I’ve always let others hold the pen—I’ve let them shuffle my pages with barely a protest, cross out what mattered most
July 13, 2023 00:11	Leander	92.8%	#FFB	And we climb, and we crawl, pulling each other up through the undergrowth and the mud, as we head for the top.	Calling it now Leander is gonna be injured and someone else is gonna make the sacrifice and it’s gonna end on a huge cliffhanger
July 12, 2023 23:25	Selly	85.4%	#FFB	my prince,
July 12, 2023 23:25	Selly	85.0%	#FFB	It’s a gift from a boy who could give me enough gold and jewels to fill my father’s fleet, but gave me something priceless, instead—a piece of himself.
July 12, 2023 22:41	Selly	82.0%	#FFB	Red sky in the morning, sailor’s warning. Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.’ ”
July 12, 2023 22:38	Keegan	80.5%	#FFB	There’s no doubt in my mind I’m looking at Laskia, Jude, and the huge magician who nearly burned us at the inn. And they’re on the hunt.
July 12, 2023 22:38	Keegan	80.3%	#FFB	“Keegan,” says the prince of Alinor, shaking his head slowly. “You’re a gem. And I’m a fool for not knowing that earlier.”
July 12, 2023 22:37	Keegan	80.1%	#FFB	She was a logical choice,” I say. “She’s a good sort,”
July 12, 2023 22:34	Keegan	79.1%	#FFB	and it was impossible to keep a book in good condition at the beach
July 12, 2023 16:53	Keegan	71.7%	#FFB	The ambassador’s auto just exploded into flames.
July 12, 2023 16:52	Keegan	71.1%	#FFB	“The boy we met last night—Jude—he had one of those pins. I thought at the time it looked familiar, but I couldn’t place it.”
July 12, 2023 14:32	Selly	67.5%	#FFB	“Those words,” she says, “are out of date.”
July 12, 2023 14:16	Keegan	64.2%	#FFB	“I’m not romantically inclined,” I say, in answer to his unspoken question. “That doesn’t mean my powers of observation fail me.”
July 12, 2023 14:14	Keegan	63.7%	#FFB	“Steer clear,” called someone from behind him. “You might catch something! You never know where he’s been.” Everywhere, I wanted to say. And anywhere. That’s the point of books.
July 12, 2023 14:12	Keegan	63.1%	#FFB	Slowly they’ve turned in toward each other, and now they sleep with their heads close together, as though they’re whispering secrets.
July 12, 2023 14:12	Jude	62.8%	#FFB	I don’t deserve what he offered me. But I can’t bear to know I gave it up.
July 12, 2023 14:10	Selly	61.7%	#FFB	Please, please don’t make me be all noble and offer to sleep on the floor
July 12, 2023 14:07	Selly	60.9%	#FFB	“You have to go right now. Get out of town.”
July 12, 2023 14:07	Selly	60.7%	#FFB	“Jude,” Leander calls
July 12, 2023 14:05	Leander	60.2%	#FFB	Everyone and everything she’s ever tried to love has left, and in the morning I will too.
July 12, 2023 14:04	Leander	59.9%	#FFB	“Leander,” she murmurs. “I can’t.”
July 12, 2023 14:03	Leander	59.2%	#FFB	My Selly
July 12, 2023 14:02	Leander	59.1%	#FFB	“You wouldn’t know intelligence if it marched up to you and tried to force its way in through your ears to the empty spot where your brain should be,”
July 12, 2023 14:00	Selly	58.4%	#FFB	’s in among the throng of dancers, a drink raised high in one hand, moving and laughing with everyone else.
July 12, 2023 13:57	Selly	57.4%	#FFB	“It’s a promise,” he says quietly. “You belong on the water. We’ll get you back there.”
July 12, 2023 13:54	Selly	56.5%	#FFB	“Well, I love that you’re possessive,” he replies, “and I’d hold your hand again if I wasn’t sure you’re willing to bite if provoked.
July 12, 2023 13:28	Selly	55.7%	#FFB	I like it when he’s unprincely for me.
July 12, 2023 13:13	Selly	55.5%	#FFB	“Then it must be because you annoy me more than you annoy everyone else.”
July 12, 2023 13:13	Selly	55.5%	#FFB	“You don’t annoy me at all.”
July 12, 2023 13:05	Leander	54.2%	#FFB	“Ready to go, handsome?” Selly asks, tilting her head at the door. “Oh, you finally noticed?” She snorts. “I just wanted your attention.
July 12, 2023 13:02	Leander	53.5%	#FFB	I was doing my best impression of you. I thought you’d be a fan.”
July 12, 2023 13:01	Leander	53.4%	#FFB	Very easy to fall out of, if you’re not concentrating.”
July 12, 2023 13:01	Leander	53.1%	#FFB	One room,” she says, practically waggling her eyebrows. “One bed, and a bath, please, ma’am
July 12, 2023 12:59	Leander	52.9%	#FFB	Hey, you’re the one who leaped into my arms, and you were trying to illegally stow away on a boat, innocent girl.
July 12, 2023 12:58	Leander	52.8%	#FFB	“And in either case, the contents would matter far more to me than the cover.”
July 12, 2023 12:53	Leander	51.6%	#FFB	“Maxim,” I volunteer. “It’s my favorite middle name.”
July 12, 2023 12:53	Leander	51.6%	#FFB	“Leander Darelion Anselm Maxim Sam—” I begin to recite before she cuts me off.
July 12, 2023 12:46	Leander	50.2%	#FFB	they’re not going to love you, Leander.” “Impossible to believe.” “Is it, though?”
July 12, 2023 00:57	Selly	46.6%	#FFB	But let’s keep our eyes on you. It’s a lovely view.” “It’s a bedraggled view,”
July 12, 2023 00:50	Selly	45.4%	#FFB	“I’m not a magician. I just have the marks.”
July 12, 2023 00:34	Selly	43.2%	#FFB	He looks like someone who should fall to pieces if you leave him out in the rain. What is it that makes him strong
July 12, 2023 00:32	Selly	42.6%	#FFB	It seems impossible that this boy who let me grouch at him, tuck a flower behind his ear, could be as powerful as he truly is.
July 12, 2023 00:24	Jude	42.1%	#FFB	As she speaks, Varon reaches out to me, fingers curling into claws. He’s staring at me like I knew, like I betrayed him.
July 12, 2023 00:21	Jude	41.5%	#FFB	“I answer my own prayers, Sister Beris. Nobody else ever has.”
July 12, 2023 00:07	Jude	40.3%	#FFB	Perhaps Varon is just really good at killing people.
July 11, 2023 19:19	Keegan	37.1%	#FFB	“You thought you were sacrificing your life to protect him
July 11, 2023 19:14	Selly	34.5%	#FFB	The world’s bigger than you, Selly Walker. Bigger than me. That’s what I’ve been trying to teach you all this time. Keep the prince alive. Whatever happens—whatever happens—he has to survive.”
July 11, 2023 19:02	Selly	29.2%	#FFB	This is the prince’s decoy fleet
July 11, 2023 18:55	Leander	26.9%	#FFB	I flirt with them.”
July 11, 2023 15:20	Leander	26.2%	#FFB	“But if you fell off, you’d end up under the boat. I don’t know what the punishment is for me if a prince gets himself knocked out cold and shredded by barnacles on my watch, but I’m guessing I won’t like it.”
July 11, 2023 15:10	Leander	25.9%	#FFB	and I’m particularly charming.” She snorts. “You’ve been told that far too many times, Prince.”
July 11, 2023 15:04	Leander	25.0%	#FFB	But I’m sure Wollesley was engaged.	If he a Jude get together I will be so unbelievably happy
July 11, 2023 15:03	Leander	24.9%	#FFB	we were closer, he’d know what I tried after Jude disappeared.	Jude Keegan and Leander know each other ??!!!
July 11, 2023 15:02	Leander	24.8%	#FFB	“A book rarely lets you down,” he says crisply. “You will find friends in its pages when they are nowhere else.”
July 11, 2023 15:01	Leander	24.6%	#FFB	“I didn’t think any sort of romantic entanglement suited you, Wollesley.” “Correct.” “Better a book than a person?”
July 11, 2023 15:00	Leander	24.5%	#FFB	: I wouldn’t have come up on deck if I’d thought we’d run into each other.
July 11, 2023 15:00	Leander	24.5%	#FFB	“If you keep your head buried in a book all your life, you’ll miss all the fun.”
July 11, 2023 15:00	Leander	24.5%	#FFB	“At least I’ve read a book
July 11, 2023 14:54	Leander	24.0%	#FFB	I knew you were…” “Strikingly handsome? Destined to cross your path again?” “Trouble,” she shoots
July 11, 2023 14:54	Leander	24.0%	#FFB	back.
July 11, 2023 14:50	Leander	23.9%	#FFB	A deckhand
July 11, 2023 14:33	Leander	23.2%	#FFB	“It’s not the first time I’ve caused carnage by taking off my shirt,” I reassure her.
July 11, 2023 14:33	Leander	23.0%	#FFB	Whatever. I’m charming, I can make it work.
July 11, 2023 14:31	Keegan	22.6%	#FFB	“Prince Leander enjoys life,” I say eventually. “And worries very little about anything.”
July 11, 2023 14:30	Keegan	22.3%	#FFB	They just hope, and believe, and not even very much of that these days.
July 11, 2023 14:29	Keegan	22.0%	#FFB	They always come back unharmed, so one assumes it will be something small—that the effort of the journey is an act of faith, and a sacrifice in itself.”
July 11, 2023 14:25	Keegan	21.2%	#FFB	“You know they make up the stories in books, right? Especially the ones about magical kings?”
July 10, 2023 16:58	Selly	19.0%	#FFB	“I’ll make my family’s traditional sacrifice when we reach the Isles and strengthen our goddess enough to maintain her watch over Macean. She’ll ensure he stays bound in sleep, where he belongs—and so the Mellaceans will have to pack up their toys and wait to play war another day.”
July 10, 2023 16:57	Selly	18.9%	#FFB	We’ve set a course for the Isles of the Gods. His Highness has business there.”
July 10, 2023 16:55	Jude	17.6%	#FFB	And the only version we’re the hero of is our own, Jude.”
July 10, 2023 16:53	Jude	17.2%	#FFB	“You can’t fight the whole world, Jude,”
July 10, 2023 16:53	Jude	17.2%	#FFB	“Why not?” I murmur. “The world threw the first punch.”
July 10, 2023 01:06	Laskia	15.5%	#FFB	“You’re going to confirm the prince is aboard, and we’re going to sink it.”
July 10, 2023 01:04	Laskia	14.7%	#FFB	and when Ruby tells him to jump, he grits his teeth and asks how high.
July 10, 2023 00:21	Jude	9.6%	#FFB	The cold-blooded killer. The private school boy dragged down into the gutter, proof the rich are no better than them.
July 10, 2023 00:21	Jude	9.6%	#FFB	I go for much prettier guys.”	Are all book Jude guys gay?
July 10, 2023 00:17	Selly	8.9%	#FFB	“There.” I lean across to tuck it behind his ear. “Everything useless around here is beautifully decorated. I wouldn’t want you to feel left out.”
July 10, 2023 00:14	Selly	7.7%	#FFB	A palace servant, perhaps, trying to blend in down here?	That’s the prince
July 09, 2023 23:57	Selly	5.6%	#FFB	What exactly is His Highness contributing to society?”
July 09, 2023 23:04	Five Hundred and One Years Ago…	3.7%	#FFB	My sacrifice will strengthen my goddess, and she’ll bind her brother Macean in sleep so he can never make war again.

Circulation

Date	Activity	Details	Library
July 16, 2023 21:21	Returned	7 days early	York County Libraries
July 09, 2023 22:09	Tagged	🧾	York County Libraries
July 09, 2023 22:09	Borrowed	14 days	York County Libraries