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Wow awesome twist

I'm not sure where I got it into my head that this would be a Dickensian romp but it's got creeping doom and a lot of discomforts. Yet I'm having a hard time putting it down.

Love how she portrays the little girl. The writing is exceptional and I'm needing to take it in slowly

a decent enough page-turner; it's best to approach it like a murder mystery. I have come to realize that books chosen by the Good Morning America book club are airplane or vacation reads, meaning passable and keep your interest but not literary. Not that it's that bad, but Im not confident this is historically accurate, let's just say.

Two allusions so far that tickled me... one to his dad's book Dead Zone and then a Jeff Tweedy inside joke.

Breezes along quickly and is fun to read so far

Damn the teacher's life is messy ... I'm not loving this like I thought I would but I do care about the characters enough to keep going.

Gustov the manservant is everything

Exactly what I was hoping for and I'm glad I overrode my instinct to dismiss this based on the cover and frankly the subject.

I'll be zipping through this and so far so good. Reads a bit YA but that is not a bad thing. At first I worried it would be too pedantic but that has dissipated.

This book is taking me a long time because it's huge but also because I need to pause at times and let the feelings dissipate.

Not too baaaad

I find myself shutting this book when I'm done for that day and rubbing my hand across its cover a few times, like soothing a baby. That means I care about the characters.

I like the spookiness; weird that chose her spring novel to be spooky. I still feel like she seems to have something gains fat people, their size is always described negatively, and the Black and gay characters are stereotypes in a lot of ways. Just had to get that off my chest. I enjoy these very much despite

Plodding along with this, certainly a well done folk horror novel but I never seem to want to read more than a chapter a time. Still, it's unlaike any book I've ever read

Each evening I read a "Song," which makes this doorstop of a tome go quickly. Not that I want it to. I feel like the characters are real people, which is a high compliment for a book. I was getting memories of Roots and feeling a bit guilty, like I was comparing the best known novel about slavery to this author's, which seemed diminishing, but then she threw in a reference to Kunte Kinte as if to say, it's OK.

I chose this for Black History Month and I'm very glad I did. I red a Song a day.

Chinese laborers toiled on railroads then were deported.

Seems pretty easy to predict the main plot device but maybe she's good with red herrings. I'm enjoying the ride anyway.

The monsters in this book are fantastic