Status Updates From Salvation Spring

waiting for the bugs to be explained

JESS IS SO BAE

OUUU i'm LOVING the Frankenstein references

"You told me to come."
"Yeah, well - I shouldn't have done."

i forgot the author is british but every now and then i'm reminded a lil!

this book is good, but i just haven't been dedicating enough time to reading it.

i tend to read genres that have formulas to storylines, but i like how this one is kind of mysterious. you never know what happens next. some unique turns that are surprising but not unwell-received in the least.

“And so, back straight and chin high, the fire iron twirling from one set of fingers like a Bowie knife and the safety lamp that Jess had given her hanging from the other, she stepped inside.”

so ominous

“She just wrapped a clean red rag around Sasha’s neck to keep the dust from her face; pushed a fresh canteen of water into Sasha’s hands, and dropped a small, sad kiss to Sasha’s cheek as she walked outside to collect the Mustang from the stable.”

🙁

i usually find the tracing of scars a bit sappy but it’s so cute here - intimate

oh shit they’re kissing

i didn't know people actually have an issue with women wearing suits WHAT

one chapter 💪💪💪

i hate juggling crs but i always end up with so many oops

“Maybe it was only logical, she’d considered, that the proximity they’d been keeping would elicit something like it in her: that the warm practicality of Jess’ manner, the soft fullness of her body, the genuine care she’d shown for Sasha after the dead boy in the desert would kindle ashes Sasha had left to burn out.”

ah! so it IS GAY

“Besides: being around Jess had turned out kind of pleasant, in itself.”

interesting 😌 (i can’t tell if this is gay or more a parental figure but ig only time will tell oops)

Yeah I'm loving this

“And the girl’s eyes, to Sasha’s very great surprise, began to open.”

interesting 😑

the blood smell description was so on point though

ohhh birth. i was like what is this kinky stuff

“You’re not Rooster,” she said. Surprisingly calmly, Sasha thought, in light of her predicament.”

I like her

Now THAT's how you start a book...

“It was the heat, she thought. She could hardly stand it herself, and she’d almost had herself convinced she’d gotten used to it after so long in the desert, the brim of her hat pulled low over her eyes to block the unremitting glare of the light all around her - sweating the whole time through the bleached-brown duster that was all that kept her flesh from cooking in its skin.”

I feel like I’m there

SAY WHAT 😨

“And then she was there - she and the Mustang walking slow-footed under the hanging sign bidding them Welcome to Salvation Spring, Population 300.”

consider me immersed, i’m loving the atmosphere

A horse!

🤠💀🔥❤️