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I’m sorry but what kind of line is “we do find answers in beauty, more often than not?” Eyeroll

Really? “Camassia”? Another potato like tuber in a dystopian book? You don’t think it’s too similar to katniss? Okay.🤪

I’m not sure if I like this so far. I feel like it’s a little sporadic.

I’ve been waiting on a hold list for this one for 3 months and I REALLY hope it’s not been overhyped 😩

So far it’s giving “The 100” season 2 combined with Hunger Games

Dare I say it, this book is even better on my re-read as an adult. The dystopian themes have aged really well, and I understand them at a deeper level now. As a teen this book was mainly about the love story to me, but now I’m more invested in what makes a society a controlling one—what factors over time slowly take away a person’s choices. It’s fascinating, and haunting.

Things that went over my head as a 16 year old: how fucked up it is that the Society wouldn’t have allowed sex except for as reproduction, and even those who chose to be Single could only date, flirt, kiss. No birth control. Even if you were Matched, you couldn’t control if/when you would get pregnant. And everything is hetero.

Societies that limit sexual freedom are absolute evil.

Yep that’s right we’re diving right in to the next series, which amazingly picks up just 3-4 months after the end of The Last Olympian !!

Listened to a good chunk of this while working on a sewing project today

Read The Frog Prince and The Gallant Tailor this evening 🐸👔

I’m not sure what surprised me more, finding out Zach is Christian, or finding out he drives a truck