Sadie Hartmann > Recent Status Updates

I love Luke Dumas’ storytelling, so easy to invest!

"God, I can't be a murderer. I'm not even twenty-two yet. Not that that's totally relevant, but I feel like you should at least be old enough to be off your parents' health insurance to be a whole murderer. I guess I'm just special."

“There were invisible strings that vibrated unseen in the liminal spaces between sunrise and secrets, between rumor, shadows, and lies. Strings that pulled all this together. All you had to do was find the seam and unravel it. Or rip it apart.”

The storytelling is so STRONG! Intense

The first chapter is INTENSE—I’m immediately invested

“But if everyone could feel everyone else's pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain?
I've never thought of my problem as something that might do some good before, but the way things are, I think it would help.
I wish I could give it to people. Failing that, I wish I could find other people who have it, and live among them. A biological conscience is better than no conscience at all.”

HUGE VIOLENT DOG MURDER LIKE 76/80% into it

I'm enjoying this and having fun, buuuut...hmmm, I'll save my thoughts for the review...

Oh I’m going to eat this right up!

“. . . trails of blood in the avenue, and the police are now investigating . . . Nongovernmental organizations have alleged that the number of missing sex workers and homeless people in large cities has increased again, but the president argues that this is a ploy invented by the opposition to . . .”

political unrest
secrets
long life
tattoos
disappearance
death squads?

"Ariadne recognized the bear-shaped chocolate crackers from her childhood, but the memory was foggy"

Chocolate Teddy Grahams mentioned!

"In age, Quaint looked like he could be anywhere in that nebulous period of adult life that ranged from thirty to fifty, but it was more, much more."

CW: immolation

Ooooh cannibalism and insect eggs *barf*

"Marcos would kill the whole world if it meant he kept power. Give him a gun, and he'd personally shoot every person protesting. It doesn't matter how much they shout, or pray, or sing. He's not leaving the presidential palace,"