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Girl… not me thinking i had finished this, when really my downloaded version wasn’t up to date.. oy vey. Lemme finish the last 2 chapters now

“He is… he’s being very good to her,” Ellen assured her. “She’s just not… coming around the way we hoped. I think that… you know she’s still in gray? I think he might be trying to find a new husband for her.” 

What game are they playing with Faith!!!!

“It wasn’t supposed to be erotic. It wasn’t supposed to be fun. So, he wasn’t going to try and convince her of that. It was supposed to strip her down to the bone so she could see how completely and utterly at his mercy she was, and how completely and utterly safe a place that was to be.”

“Look at me,” he ordered. She struggled too, so he helped her, and took her chin in his hand. His eyes bore into her.  “I’m your Father now, Grace.””

🫪

“”Duke.”  He looked very pleased with himself.  “Is that a good school?””

Lol get his ass.

“It was a large open space, like a function hall, filled with large skillets, ovens, and fridges”

Running water but no electricity, my ass

“Grace thought he said something about the weather but she was too focused on Faith to register it.  “I need her to want to stay!” she snapped at Bennie, shoving him away again”

Ohhhhh. Sneaky sneaky. Bad weather and her flight gets canceled, eh

“”The weather report, sir.” Father chuckled, rich and smooth, “Well, isn't that just good luck."  “Very good luck, sir,” Ryan laughed.”

HMMMMM

“So this has been in your family for a long time then,” she said. “It has. This land has an … unfortunate history. Robert’s family is quite closely tied to my own. A troublesome tie, but I do consider him family, as he does me.””

Yikes…

I hated louis and lestat so much the first time i read this. And… well yeah, rightfully so.

I swear dark RHs are always written like sitcoms

The cliffhanger at the end of chapter 32… yes girl

Why is this so long 😵‍💫

The dialogue is a little slapsticky for me so far

I’m being very lazy about finishing this. I can do it i can do it

😣

I’m only 25% through 😳

Going to try and sneaky read through this during class. She does such a fantastic job of telling us who katniss is in this first chapter. (something she failed at in haymitch's book....)

I just…. “But the truth is, what have I got to lose? nothing, that’s what.”

Hey, haymitch, remember all those people you love in district 12? How have you not once considered the danger you’re putting them in? You know full well how beetee was punished with ampert’s death…

So the very first berm hatch that haymitch manages to find and camp by just so miraculously happens to lead down directly next to the water tank… it’s too convenient for me.

I get the appeal of focusing on the people who are suffering the most in Panem, aka district 12, but i really would love a book that shows us more of what the other district's daily living is like. we really are only given the most broad descriptions of what the other descriptions are like.

Sejanus ☹️

Starving his whole life, and then the games start and he gains weight…

This scenario here with the water bottles and the rabies kid is pretty ridiculous, right?

“How quickly civilization disappears. All your fine manners, education, family background, everything you pride yourself on, stripped away in the blink of an eye, revealing everything you actually are. A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That’s mankind in its natural state.”

"No, it isn't! I don't care what you say. You've no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they're not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn't give you that right. Having more weapons doesn't give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn't give you that right. Nothing does.“

I love how immediately we get an understanding of coriolanus - he’s whatever the situation calls for. Very calculating

Her wardrobe being literally only leggings is so millennial coded