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Bloody hell, that got particularly brutal!

Bloody HELL, this is heavy.

'For him, it was enough. He'd heard once that to quit anything that got ahold of you, you had to give yourself up to a higher power. His kids were it.
Now they were gone.'

Managed to read a bit during my lunch break at work. Would prefer not to have to lug an 800 page book around with me all day, but so far it's worth it.

‘The Kindness is our defence against disintegration, and we would do well to give it some thought now and again. It is so important, yet at the same time so fragile. What happens if the Kindness crumbles away, and what will become of us?’

I'm loving more than I'm hating, now. Struggling to put it down because you can tell something is coming and I keep wanting to know what it is. Then what the next thing is going to be. That last chapter was actually kinda heartbreaking. One more to go, but I'll have to save that for tomorrow.

Heard this was a love it or hate it book, but tbh I'm having a very mixed time of it. Hated the prologue and first chapter, pretty much loved the second, and the jury is out on the third (current) chapter...