Adelaide Jensen

And my favorite thing, of course, is your two brothers, who are the emperor's sons.

Tell us about them.

Describe them to me.

just took over in some scenes and it was fun yeah couldn't resist the love triangle could you yeah that always makes it really fun as a reader have where you have like oh you're like here's the beautiful brother who she has the past with you like interesting and then the dark shadowy seemingly evil brother comes and you're like okay yes I I can see where this is going and I love it but at the same time I'm like I don't want people to think that like Rorik is in game like

They are like... Yes.

I think you've done that well because I was like, well, obviously I know who I'm rooting for because I'm so Damon Salvatore obsessed.

But it is still like that door is still open.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, he is, but he also has those moments of, like, small gentleness or redemption.

And it's one of those things we've spoken about on the podcast before, which I love, is the idea of having men who seem dark and broody and then seeing them with a really dark and dangerous animal.

Like, he's with it, and you're like, oh, he is...

Nice to this, and you're like, well, does he have a side that we're not seeing?

It must be so fun to sprinkle in those moments.

I know exactly the scene you're talking about.

And when I was like re-flicking through to make notes for this, I was like, oh my God, I forgot about this bit.

And I love it because it's so intense, but also such an interesting look at power dynamics between all three of them, really.

Yeah.

Which is brilliant.

Yeah.

It's such a good scene for anyone who's not read the book.