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how is this even more spooky than the first book???

love meeting a new friend at church and when they can't find their car, offering to drive them around the gigantic church parking lot to find it and having your audiobook come on talking about "you aren't going to be hiding a dead body in here, are you?"

hoooo boy!! this is getting crazy! I like it a lot!

dude I was eating this up today!!

in theory I am sick and should be napping but my jaw is dropped and I don't want to put the book down

this is already so gripping and I've barely read anything so far (this series is 9 books long)

AHHH OH NO

okay... new development... not sure where we're going from here but I'm trusting the process

I keep highlighting lines because they're written SO WELL.

listen to this:
"To have brought all this about her ears was terrible; but after a while the situation was not without a fearful joy. The facility with which even the most timid women sometimes acquire a relish for the dreadful when that is amalgamated with a little triumph, is marvellous."

the payoff here is feeling lacking

ughhhhhhh why do I get myself into these situations where the series isn't done being published this is going to be the end of me

I can feel adrenaline pumping right now I'm so excited about this

I'd like to brag that I told my husband I really wanted to read this book (but I've only got it in audiobook format, and I am not built in such a way to just listen without also having a Task) and he went and bought it for me :,)

also dragging myself through this

dragging myself through this

this is giving some insane Red Rising vibes and I'm a big fan!!! (It's the 17 yr old angry boy at the bottom of the food chain in a Romanesque setting who is going to a school for the elite children of the government people) but I might actually like the setting of this one more 👀 I will make an official announcement when I finish the book- we just got to school

i can't decide if I actually want to read this whole series right now or if just reading The Selection scratched the itch. ... I can't remember what the rebels are actually doing and I know that gets revealed but I can't remember if it's this book or the next one 🫠

it's not getting better 🫩 but I'm determined to finish it

half of this book is really good and half is SO SLOW

I have been gripped with anxiety since the halfway point and it is not abating good gravy

this feels like the natural next book to read after finishing Lonesome Dove

I've briefly lost my mojo reading this depressing book

it feels SO GOOD to guess at the implications and be RIGHT

also this book is so freaking good. It's been a minute since I've read something so well woven together (mistborn)! there have been so many details that are in the first book that are finally starting to make sense in the third. UGH

if my bedtime wasn't 9 pm you best believe I'd be finishing this in one day

I'm eating this up

WHAT THE FREAK

I'm hoping this takes a turn at some point and goes somewhere uplifting but I'm feeling less optimistic about that every step we take

this is making me want to re-read the way of kings, and I need to resist that urge

I'm returning to Dune at work because I've been informed my other audiobook is going to make me cry and I want to save that for the comfort of my car

okay we're cooking now