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I'm struggggllling with this book... I don't like this man and I'm not sure I want him to have the redemption arc that I'm sure is coming.

It blows my mind that you could write a book of imagined bigotry but still riddle it with real life microaggressions and stereotypes :-/

I'm almost halfway in and I want to scream at Lowen: "Girl! Mind your business and stay in your lane!"

*huffs in annoyance*

At this point I've lost count of the number sex scenes. It's turning into one of those smut books Nesta loves so much. A bit saucy for a YA novel.

Living rent free in my mind: Lore was running around NY for two days and never showered once! Even though she could have. Never mind fights, blood and explosions, my girl just washed her face and changed her clothes. Shook!

Steups

"Theres truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully. Only if one knows the knowledge is tainted in the first place."

“All these years later, people take it as fact. It’s as if repeating the lie over and over makes it true.”

“And you’re not lost?”

I think for a moment.

“Maybe I am. But the difference is that I want to be found. I’m not happy pretending everything is fine when I know it’s not.”

“And just who is it that you suppose will find you?” Amina asks.

“It’ll be me,” I say. “I will find myself.”

"It’s the oldest human problem, Lyra, an’it’s the difference between good and evil. Evil can be unscrupulous, and good can’t. Evil has nothing to stop it doing what it wants, while good has one hand tied behind its back."