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Flight fight freeze or FAWN. Maya learning to placate her father at a young age was so sad. And now walking through the extreme variations of their lives is mind blowing.

Part love story, part revenge redemption with some history and a strong female lead = my type of book.

“The time you have with the people you love is like a melting ice cube. One minute it’s there… the next, it’s gone”😭

Finished. I guess the ending made it better but it was a lot of back and forth and I got bored.

🔥👌🏼poor thing. Was exiled from exile for being a nazis daughter and not even knowing. All the pain and anguish but still she persisted. And now in Hollywood she continues w her revenge 20 yrs later.

“It matters because Sometimes big men feel small inside… because sometimes their need to please previous generations is greater than their need to love future ones.”

“Self loathing turns into defiance becoming the wind beneath me…performing a ghetto ballet in which I’m the principal dancer”

All the things. Her husband is alive, the bad guy was her father 🤯 I like how transparent she is with her guilt and emotion and how she is always on stage.

Meh. Kind of interesting but lots of back and forth detectives that gets a little redundant. They tried to make you believe one thing when I knew that wasn’t the truth and now going all around.

Exciting enough to keep me picking it up regularly. Really enjoy the honesty in this woman. NFG.

“War both entraps and frees you. What’s the point of morals, niceties, and suppressed emotion when you could die at any moment. … smothering my conscience and any semblance of right and wrong”

Loved that this was different. Female relationship and NASA astronauts not war for a historical fiction. Writing was good but not perfection.

Loved. The happy and sad and beautiful quotes.

Heaven is living your best now forever. I’m so fortunate to have so many amazing nows and hopefully have many more to come.

It’s a long life, but fast one single step in the right direction can be enough.

The most dangerous place is inside us.

Art is coincidence love is chaos. This book is beautiful and ugly painful and funny at the very same time.

Loved it. The style and stories and characters. Not what I would normally pick and wouldn’t have been interested had I read the description. But it was art, the love the characters and the video games. So good.

No not Marx! So sad. I wasn’t sure I like him but now I realized I did. He’s the easy to love optimistic person everyone needs in their life. Game over no more lives left to play. And Sadie’s pregnant 😭

Not something I would normally go for but loving the characters and their connections. I even like the retro video games and coding information. I keep switching sides between Sadie and Sam but like them both.

Loved this book the story and the characters but hated the world they lived in. Needing a husband’s signature for birth control and a checking account is wild. While I know there is much to be done on the equality front I’m grateful for the women before me who did so much.

Took me a second to learn the characters but I do love them all now. Margaret the author, Bitsy the animal lover, Charlotte the badass and Vivian the nurse and mother of 7!

Easy read. Nothing magical but overall entertaining.

Not my favorite. Predictable and boring at times. The characters were cute but expected.

Had never before heard of baby farms or this horrific situation. So sad all the families destroyed. The entitled and wealthy thinking they deserved these babies more than their true parents is unreal and the greed of the woman on charge is disgusting. So sad that Camilla disappeared and hearing it from a child’s perspective but then they just moved on. Heart is broken

Already enthralled. 5 kids taken from their shanty river boat in the 30’s and present day bougee AF political family and some scary connection be the two

😭😭😭 three tries with his “second family”. Such a young boy and so much trauma and fear. I kept forgetting this was real. Yes long and slow at pints but it was real his life through his little nine year old eyes. I just can’t fathom my children going through that or even myself as an adult. Perspective for sure.

Aggghh so nervous. He’s going to cross la linea and go to Tucson. Poor baby. I can’t imagine how scary it must be to walk into a new hostile land.

So far he’s travelled from El Salvador to Guatemala and now to Mexico. Sad and hard story. Love the poetic prose but all so much detail makes the story drag on.

Overall just ok luck going on to focus on the big picture. Less characters would have given more importance to the main idea.