Reading Journey

Title	Garden of the Cursed
Author	Katy Rose Pool
Publisher	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Isbn	9781250846679
Percent	12.2%

Highlights

Date	Chapter	Percent	Color	Quote	Note
October 23, 2023 20:45	Twenty-Eight	98.1%	#FFE0EC	Vale had done it. He had gotten the grimoire from Cassandra. He’d used it to put Adrius under a Compulsion curse. Ordered him to kill his own father. He’d gotten away with all of it, and now there was no one left to stop him. No one except Marlow.
October 23, 2023 20:41	Twenty-Seven	96.6%	#FFE0EC	But if Adrius was under Vale’s control, it gave Vale something to gain, too.
October 23, 2023 20:36	Twenty-Seven	93.8%	#FFE0EC	“The truth is, Marlow, as much as I wanted to be a good, faithful man, I was never strong enough to resist the pull I felt toward your mother. But now, when I look at you, I can’t find it in myself to regret falling in love with her.”
October 23, 2023 20:35	Twenty-Six	92.5%	#FFE0EC	“Amara is right,” Marlow declared. “I killed Aurelius Falcrest.”	This book is so freaking good
October 23, 2023 20:33	Twenty-Five	91.3%	#FFE0EC	Slowly, Adrius reached over to pluck Marlow’s knife from her grip. His face was strangely blank, no trace of the alarm and anger from before. He looked calm. Almost docile. Without warning, Adrius stepped forward and thrust the knife into his father’s chest.	It’s Caito it has to be
October 23, 2023 20:32	Twenty-Five	90.6%	#FFE0EC	“Do you recall that little chat we had the other night?” Aurelius said at last. “About the line between courage and foolishness?”
October 23, 2023 20:29	Twenty-Five	88.2%	#FFE0EC	“You think Falcrest—” Swift cut himself off. “Why would he do that?”	I told you!!! I told you that it was a surprise tool that would help us later!!!!!!
October 23, 2023 20:28	Twenty-Four	87.7%	#FFE0EC	Aurelius had used the Compulsion curse on her—years ago, it seemed, to acquire her family’s fortune.
October 23, 2023 20:16	Twenty-Two	82.9%	#FFE0EC	“Then you walked out of my life,” he said quietly. “And I was the one left behind, feeling like the biggest fool in the world.”
October 23, 2023 20:16	Twenty-Two	82.9%	#FFE0EC	When I got cursed, you were the only person I trusted.”
October 23, 2023 20:16	Twenty-Two	82.9%	#FFE0EC	Maybe that’s all love was. Handing someone a knife and trusting that they wouldn’t cut your throat.
October 23, 2023 20:16	Twenty-Two	82.7%	#FFE0EC	The truth is, Marlow, this whole time I never lied about the way I feel about you. Not once.”
October 23, 2023 20:16	Twenty-Two	82.6%	#FFE0EC	because the truth is you’re all I think about, you’re all I’ve thought about for the past year
October 23, 2023 20:15	Twenty-Two	82.2%	#FFE0EC	“What happened? Who did this to you?”	I am a simple simple person
October 23, 2023 20:15	Twenty-One	81.5%	#FFE0EC	Adrius had betrayed her.	No no no I think he didn’t know about he’s not evil I won’t believe it
October 23, 2023 20:14	Twenty-One	81.4%	#FFE0EC	Or someone had fastened it around her wrist and it had stayed there all night.	If the compulsion curse was fake I’m going to cry and if adrius is evil I will snap spines
October 23, 2023 20:13	Twenty-One	80.5%	#FFE0EC	In the moonlight, Marlow could see the markings—black veins creeping up her mother’s wrists, just like she’d seen on Armant Montagne.
October 23, 2023 20:11	Twenty	79.3%	#FFE0EC	Marlow froze. The figure stepped toward her, and in the thin light of the moon, Marlow saw the dark-red markings on her face.
October 23, 2023 20:10	Twenty	78.1%	#FFE0EC	She tilted her own so that it caught the light and noticed a faint, glittering tinge.
October 23, 2023 20:09	Nineteen	77.3%	#FFE0EC	“Adrius.” Marlow blurted the first idea that flickered through her mind. “Kiss me.” Adrius’s lips parted in surprise. The only movement of his body was the rise and fall of his chest as he pulled in a ragged breath.
October 23, 2023 20:08	Nineteen	76.8%	#FFE0EC	Marlow thought for a moment that Amara might stay and continue the argument. But with a huff of outrage, she stormed out of the parlor.	Could she be under compulsion too?
October 23, 2023 20:03	Eighteen	73.5%	#FFE0EC	They cut a hole, he said, his dark-green eyes fixed on hers. The fangs. They came and they pierced my mind. They took all of it. Bloodred fangs.	Called it
October 23, 2023 20:01	Eighteen	72.5%	#FFE0EC	“‘You have stolen my breath.’”
October 23, 2023 20:01	Eighteen	72.5%	#FFE0EC	“‘And I fear if I’m not careful,’” Adrius went on, an accusatory glint in his eyes, “‘you’ll steal my heart, too.’”
October 23, 2023 20:01	Eighteen	72.0%	#FFE0EC	“Adrius, he’s … different, when he’s with you.”
October 23, 2023 18:37	Seventeen	68.2%	#FFE0EC	“If you want my advice, you should consider being more polite to the girl who, one, has a gun pointed at you, and two, has the power to save your ass from getting merced by one of the most powerful men in the city.”
October 23, 2023 18:10	Seventeen	65.3%	#FFE0EC	Swift strode toward them from the entrance of the speakeasy	No no no no no you are not making stupid decisions go home
October 23, 2023 18:07	Sixteen	63.4%	#FFE0EC	Silvan had cursed Adrius.	Hmm I don’t think so we’re still only 60% through
October 23, 2023 18:01	Fifteen	58.5%	#FFE0EC	Where would I even get a curse like that?”	Yeah she kinda just exposed adrius curse
October 23, 2023 17:58	Fifteen	56.9%	#FFE0EC	He got all quiet and then verbally eviscerated Hendrix in front of everyone. Hendrix’s social standing never recovered. And no one ever said anything about you in front of Adrius again
October 23, 2023 17:01	Fourteen	55.7%	#FFE0EC	“Who?”
October 23, 2023 17:00	Fourteen	55.6%	#FFE0EC	Are you so incapable of keeping your pants on for ten days that you had to feel up the nearest willing girl?
October 23, 2023 17:00	Fourteen	55.0%	#FFE0EC	“I said get. Your hands. Off her,” Adrius growled, lashing out to grab the Ferryman’s wrist.	I love this book
October 23, 2023 16:56	Fourteen	53.3%	#FFE0EC	“You’re content with letting the Five Families bleed the poorest and most desperate in this city dry to fuel the magic that gets funneled only to those who can afford it? You think that’s a fair system?”	Not gonna lie kinda loving the anti-capitalism
October 23, 2023 16:55	Fourteen	53.2%	#FFE0EC	Better yet, what would the world look like? That’s what the Black Orchid aims to do. To sever the Five Families’ control of the spell trade. Call it a redistribution of power.”
October 23, 2023 16:49	Fourteen	52.5%	#FFE0EC	Viatriz raised her eyebrows	She reminds me of the Nameless Woman
October 23, 2023 15:58	Thirteen	51.8%	#FFE0EC	taken aback by his intent gaze and his thumb rubbing at the	No
October 23, 2023 15:57	Thirteen	51.3%	#FFE0EC	“Adrius is a big boy,” Marlow said. “He can make his own choices.” “You would think so, wouldn’t you?” Silvan muttered darkly.
October 23, 2023 15:54	Thirteen	50.3%	#FFE0EC	“You know, usually when a girl asks me to put a hand up her skirt—” “Finish that sentence, I dare you.”
October 23, 2023 14:56	Twelve	49.6%	#FFE0EC	“And while I have you, I think it’s time you told me where your mother is.”	Is her mother not a good person? I wouldn’t be surprised
October 23, 2023 14:54	Twelve	48.0%	#FFE0EC	You had to know exactly what you were willing to risk.
October 23, 2023 14:52	Twelve	47.4%	#FFE0EC	You could lie. You could lie as much as you wanted, and if no one called you out, you could go on doing it with impunity.	So like a better version of bs? I love the card games in Katy pools books
October 23, 2023 14:46	Eleven	45.0%	#FFE0EC	“They cut a hole in my head. Drip drop. They all fell out.” “What?” Marlow said. “The fangs,” he whispered, staring off at nothing. “They came and they pierced my mind. They took all of it. Bloodred fangs.”	Doesn’t that Caito lady have red fangs as part of her job?
October 23, 2023 14:31	Ten	40.9%	#FFE0EC	“Oh, go jump off the roof, Adrius.” Adrius went still beside Marlow. His arm tightened around her waist and then he turned abruptly away.	Oof
October 23, 2023 14:28	Nine	38.3%	#FFE0EC	This has led researchers and historians to conclude that after a duration of two moons, Ilario’s Compulsion curse became irreversible.	Why am I vibing so much with this book?
October 23, 2023 14:25	Nine	37.3%	#FFE0EC	was destroyed by Falcrest Library at the height of the Purge.	Sure
October 23, 2023 14:23	Nine	36.1%	#FFE0EC	“He enjoys wielding power,”	Marking this down just in case it’s important for later …
October 23, 2023 14:23	Nine	35.9%	#FFE0EC	he is merely an impetuous child with delusions of grandeur.”	Ooh yes daddy issues
October 23, 2023 14:21	Nine	35.0%	#FFE0EC	It was like breathing, how easily Adrius could throw around his status to get what he wanted.
October 23, 2023 14:19	Nine	33.8%	#FFE0EC	Black granite buildings emerged from one another in tessellated fractals. Windowed skywalks and stairways intersected at odd, seemingly impossible angles. Marlow felt like she was looking at a moving, breathing beast rather than a building.
October 23, 2023 13:48	Eight	32.5%	#FFE0EC	“That I can’t preempt an order,” Marlow replied. “The curse forces you to obey whatever order you’re given last, even if it contradicts a previous command.”	Then can’t she just say remember who cursed you?
October 23, 2023 13:47	Eight	31.8%	#FFE0EC	“You’re even more irresistible when you blush.”
October 23, 2023 03:08	Six	22.4%	#FFE0EC	Adrius said, and then went through the door, shutting it firmly behind him. The scent of amber and orange blossom lingered in the room even after he was gone.	Umm girly shouldn’t you monitor him a bit?
October 23, 2023 03:07	Six	21.9%	#FFE0EC	Like he was picturing the horrors he could be compelled to carry out with just a few whispered words.	Why is Katy pool so good at making characters I adore?
October 23, 2023 03:03	Six	20.9%	#FFE0EC	Adrius smiled—a real, unvarnished smile—and Toad hopped up to settle in his lap, her eyes squinting in pleasure.	:)
October 23, 2023 02:56	Six	20.2%	#FFE0EC	He smiled like a lion baring its teeth.	Acting or did someone tell him to be rude?
October 23, 2023 02:55	Six	20.0%	#FFE0EC	Guilt twinged through her—she’d have to take care how she spoke to him from now on.
October 23, 2023 02:55	Five	19.8%	#FFE0EC	Armant Montagne.
October 23, 2023 02:44	Five	16.8%	#FFE0EC	“Darling.”	My feet are kicking
October 23, 2023 02:42	Five	16.1%	#FFE0EC	“I don’t know. I don’t remember being ordered not to tell anyone, but whenever I try I just … can’t get the words out	Oooh Abby likes this a lot
October 23, 2023 02:38	Five	15.9%	#FFE0EC	“You haven’t told anyone.” “I—can’t.” It took Marlow a moment to understand what he was saying. “You mean you’ve been ordered not to.”	Called it!
October 23, 2023 02:33	Five	15.7%	#FFE0EC	“Too busy gazing adoringly at your own reflection in the window?” “That, and mentally composing odes to the studious blond who sat next to me.”
October 23, 2023 02:32	Five	15.6%	#FFE0EC	“Get up.” For a moment Adrius just stared at her. A muscle twitched in his jaw, and he exhaled audibly through his nose. He seized for a moment, all the languid nonchalance sapping out of him as he lurched stiffly to his feet.	Ooooooohhhhh
October 23, 2023 02:21	Four	14.0%	#FFE0EC	You shouldn’t let your cat eat trash, an annoyingly Swift-like voice chastised.
October 23, 2023 02:16	Four	13.2%	#FFE0EC	“Who the brack sent you a dress?”	smirks
October 23, 2023 02:04	Four	12.7%	#FFE0EC	She spun on her heel, scrambling back up the stairs before she let herself say anything more	Alright my guess is either a) he can’t talk about his curse or b) it has something to do with Marlow or c) he did it to himself to get closer to her
October 23, 2023 02:03	Four	12.1%	#FFE0EC	“I don’t know any of those cursebreakers,” Adrius replied easily. “I know you.”	He’s gonna be another favorite book boy I’m calling it
October 23, 2023 01:58	Four	12.0%	#FFE0EC	“Toad can detect curses,” Marlow said. “Don’t ask me how or why. I found her like that. But she’s never wrong, which means you really are cursed.”
October 23, 2023 01:47	Four	11.1%	#FFE0EC	Adrius asked, swinging his legs off the desk. Today’s rich carmine jacket and open-collared cream shirt were much more casual than the outfit	This is just Evander
October 23, 2023 01:46	Three	10.8%	#FFE0EC	He’d sold his voice to a spellshop almost two decades ago to pay off a debt.	:( Also loving the Baz + Basil
October 23, 2023 01:41	Three	9.4%	#FFE0EC	I swear to the Crocodile Goddess	The who now?
October 22, 2023 15:35	One	1.4%	#FFE0EC	A group of gamblers clustered around one of the tables, arguing over dice.	Always gamblers … I will cry if Anton makes a cameo

Circulation

Date	Activity	Details	Library
October 24, 2023 21:02	Returned	10 days early	The Free Library of Philadelphia
October 20, 2023 21:04	Tagged	🧾	The Free Library of Philadelphia
October 20, 2023 21:04	Borrowed	14 days	The Free Library of Philadelphia
October 08, 2023 02:33	Placed on hold		The Free Library of Philadelphia