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Somehow this became The Hunger Games, though since both take inspiration from the Roman Empire, maybe it makes sense?

This is easily becoming a contender for Best Book of the Year for me

“. . . and it is the smile of somebody you know to say hello to on the street, a husband, a father, a volunteer in the community, and yet behind that smile lies the shadow of the state.”

Lord, thank you for willing me to pick up this random book on a table at B&N!

Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now.

We lived as usual, by ignoring.

🎶 They’re burning all the witches even if you aren’t one. They’ve got their pitchforks and proof, their receipts and reasons. 🎶

This book satiates my slight obsession with The Crucible

*reads about the vampire-Indian hiding in a white poachers’ camp, witnessing the poachers SA a boy, then slaughtering everyone in sight, then burning the camp, then standing in the moonlight mourning the hundreds of buffalo carcasses spread around him*

“Guess I finally got to the horror part….”

Slow start—Jones’s writing style is hard to wrap my head around—but it’s eerie so far.

Idk the opening chapter being a plot between fallen angels to make havoc of God’s creation after He turns His attention away from men was sick as h*ll

This continues to feel like living through the Ball State Honors College simply because northeastern Indiana is hell