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“Mabel wanted Jericho; Jericho wanted Evie. And right now, Evie wanted to forget. Kissing Jericho tonight didn’t have to mean anything. Tomorrow, the crank would be turned anew, and the gears of the world would lurch into motion. She could still fix things tomorrow or the day after. But this was right now, and right now she needed this. She needed him.”

so selfish

“They’re coming,” Miss Addie said. “Oh, dear sister, they are coming.”

“They loved it. They loved her. In the greatest city in the world, at its greatest moment, she was there at the center of it all. Will couldn’t send her home now. There’d be a protest. She’d organize it herself if she had to.”


stupid

“I’m tired of everyone deciding what’s for my own good!”

hate this

“Because…” Will began. “Because it isn’t safe here.”

and suddenly the very cheesy writing style came back…

“You think people will believe it?”
“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”

the solving of the mystery part is fast paced and very intriguing

“We’re not going to wait for John Hobbes to take his last victim. We’re taking the fight to him. We’re going to Knowles’ End.”

“At the crossroads, you will have a choice, brother. Careful of the one who works with both hands. Don’t let the eye see you….”

finally picking up good good