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My favorite part was when Todd got jealous when some hottie was overly familiar with Elizabeth.

"I'm sure there is a logical explanation," Elizabeth said.

Ya think? Maybe that logical explanation is the fact that you have an identical twin sister who visited the same house the night before?

“Every one of them was living through a moment of radical personal change when they were no longer the stars of their own lives, when they were shaken by a depth of worry they’ve never experienced. They knew they were supposed to shoulder their transformation uncomplainingly and selflessly like “good” mothers, while also maintaining the body weight and grooming habits of a Disney Channel ingenue.”

“....they weren’t primed from birth like women were, told that they could be anything they wanted to be while handicapped at every turn by invisible forces, told they were more than just their looks while also culturally programmed to believe that their value was tied to their desirability.”

“Speaking of patriarchal bullshit, never say that again . You can’t babysit your own son. He literally exists because of your sperm”

Eh - promising start- but got way too technical for my enjoyment. I’m going to put aside.

When the moon blows up on the first page, you know it’s going to be a good book!

To quote ‘My Favorite Murder,’ f*uck politeness! I want to tell Lizzie to change all the locks in her house and run away to another town.

“If it’s a choice between crack and coffee, I’m picking Dark Magic.”

“I’ve had to unfollow people on Instagram because they post too many inspirational quotes. Just let me have my shitty day.”

“She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory — to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child.”

So far, this book is disgusting and there are way too many characters. I have no idea who these people are and why I want to follow them around for a chapter. And I’ve read the other two books within the past two days.

"Cath could hear the perv shouting curses behind them. “Oh, fuck you, Flowers in the Attic!” Levi shouted back."

I'm already completely in love with this book! Lucinda Riley's writing style is incredible - detailed without being overly detailed.

Loving this fairy tale so far!

So close, yet so far away...

This book is ridiculous - why is the premise that women can't have girls? Shouldn't they be focused on what's going on with the men? They're the ones who supply the chromosomes that make someone a boy or a girl. Obviously the male author didn't attend health class.

I'm really not sure how I'm going to keep reading this book - the writing is awful, nothing in the book makes even the remotest amount of sense and there's a Walking Dead level of gore.

This may be the stupidest, most poorly written book I've ever read. I'm totally hate reading it right now, but I feel obligated to finish it since I paid 99 cents for it. I swear this is the last time I read a book published through Amazon. The writing is always so bad.

Loving this book so far! It combines two of my faves: regency time period + fighting evil.

These characters are all terrible people, but for some reason, I'm digging this book!

And now refined carbs are the devil...

I really liked the first two books in this series - good story, not too preachy, cheerful. This one, however, has included a line about how men were designed to be the leaders. Um no. I'm waffling between continuing reading so I know how it ends (and complaining to my husband the whole time) or quitting because my feminist brain can't take it.

I thought I liked this book at first, but now I just think it's stupid. I'm sick of hearing about how plain the heroine is. And the way she acts around Travis is super embarrassing. The only reason I'm staying the course is to see if I'm right about who caused the car accident...

"I'm starting to think maybe you just pick a place and stay there. You pick a career and do it. You pick a person and commit to him."

This book is horribly written, but it's scaring the bejeezus out of me. I'm about to stock up on bottled water and canned goods!

I have no idea what's happening in this book right now!

This book is scaring the bejeezus out of me.