And so we enter the foray at chapter 9 notes:

“I will not die today” that’s my girl you use that law of attraction.

Dain and Xaden… I don’t think they’ll be making friendship bracelets for each other any time soon.

They certainly have classic chemistry (Xaden and Violet). Ooo that was a tense could have kissed moment on the mats.

lol the nickname violence. Picasso. I like it.

Ooo she has a creepy stalker who wants her dead. Crushed flowers on her bed…. How not romantic.

Ergh Dain still trying to get her to leave to go be a scribe despite her wishes. Dick move. He’s pretty desperate for her to leave. I have to wonder one thing though. Is he trying to save her because it’s for her or for his own feelings?

Heading into chapter 10 notes:

Whats the gauntlet? Oh so it’s like total wipeout but murderous.

Ooo she’s starting to believe in herself a bit. Amazing what being pinned to a mat by your enemy can do.

Ok professor Emetterio… I don’t know why but I keep hearing it as amaretto.

Thank goodness I don’t have to do the course.

Is she telling us about feather tails because that will be her dragon?

Well wouldn’t you know the one who’s practiced the obstacle courses died on it.

Another surprise meeting with Xaden after curfew. Will they get caught at some point? But they do get under each others skin.

Ok just one more chapter. Notes on 11:

So does her having her brothers book cause turmoil to the after life of her brother? You know with the god of deaths laws.

Do these people not have suncream?

Imogen is probably due for retribution and death at some point probably for pissing off Xaden.

So Dain is given the Peeta Mellark vibe but lacks the confidence in Violet’s potential abilities.

I wonder if it’s an omen that she said “one of us will have to bury the other” could that be foreshadowing?

Will Dain ever accept that she’s changed? Wanting to be there.

Oh nice she made the gauntlet. But I have to say they are not going to like her methods.

Yup there it is. Amber Mavis. I don’t remember that name before. What is Xaden going to save her bacon with?

Oh it’s the book. The codex saves her bacon on using the dagger. So using a knife from home that she took on her walk across a bridge got her out on a technicality.

I think I like the phrase “the right way isn’t the only way” … I like me a loophole here and there.

How have so many in her squad minus the girl who practiced those things before survived that far? Like there’s more of their squad than the others so what’s the magical answer they had to living so long?