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Ok. I'm feeling a little silly. It took til ch10 to realize this is a retelling of Jane Eyre. Glad Jane Eyre is my favorite classic!

Millie--you're not very bright.

Here we go! Hoping to end 2023 strong. Reading this based on Nenia's review.

I've read this before, but now I'm listening to the audio.
These readers are great.

Really enjoying this so far. Not sure what's going on. I have to see what the deal is.

This book has been monopolizing my FB feed for too long. It finally wore me down. Buddy read with the excellent Brandy.

Starting Tenth Grave:

In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

Blue, I feel the same way.

I can't believe I didn't see this. The foreshadowing. It was all there and I missed it!

I love all these retro pictures in the book. I had this cassette myself!

...and the ones they had to sneak into the Langs' house...Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind, If There be Thorns and the most scandalous of them all, My Sweet Audrina with its endless parade of sexual perversion.

Mr. Hendrix, I could swear you stalked me when I was a teenager.

This book is set in high school, deals with demonic possession, and the title of each chapter is a song from the eighties. I think Grady Hendrix wrote this book just for me!

Lou's family is terrible. I hate how her dad uses her. He needs her income yet he constantly insults her and calls her fat. Her sister guilts her into keeping a job she hates because she's going to leave home to go back to school and needs the handout. They already care for the grandpa to get his pension. If I were her I'd leave home and make them figure out their finances.

Lou's dad is a jerkwad. The shop she worked for closed; it's not like she got fired. Quit acting like she's an incompetent.

I'm loving this so far. Wrath and Beth are very likable. But geez, Wrath's self-loathing rivals Edward's.

(Hayden) pulls me into his side and kisses the top of my head.
(Jarod) Yanking me into a hug, he messes up my carefully styled hair. Haydn extracts me from his embrace...as he smooths my hair back off my face. I smack his hands away. Seriously what is it with these dudes and their grabby hands?

I'm thinking the same thing, Sadie. SMH. And neither one is your boyfriend.

Between Charley and her retrograde amnesia in Ninth Grave and Sammy with her dissociative amnesia, I'm leaning a lot about amnesia. Too bad I'll probably forget it all.

"It was weird, like two people coming together and bringing out the absolute worst in each other..."

Yeah, that seems like an accurate description of their relationship.

This guy is comparing his feelings toward Allie to the attraction Edward felt for Bella?
Hockey dude knows Twilight?

Everything stops and my TBR gets kicked to the curb when a new Reyes book comes out. Sorry, not sorry.

Ari: " Can I sty here with you?" Her cheeks flush a deep shade of red. "Just to sleep, " she adds quickly.
Zane: Hell, I'm not sure I have the necessary self-discipline for that, but she looks so vulnerable, and I've always had a difficult time saying no to her. "Come on<" I rasp.

Hmm. Why does Zane sound like he's taking one for the team?