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It’s driving me crazy how the book keeps mentioning that the main character doesn’t know what time it is, but it previously mentioned she has a working cell phone. The only problem with it is no signal. That means it should still say the time!!!

Oh man, my heart actually skipped a beat reading that character death. :( What a way to find out…

"I arranged for Bert Cornes--the night watchman at the mill, who, as his last task before going home in the morning, knocked his long pole on the windows of the mill workers' homes to wake them--to come past Mrs. Clem's establishment and knock me up as well."

Hahaha, the author definitely knew what she was doing when she wrote this, right?

“Some actors arrive, and Hamlet instructs them to do a play about a king murdered by his brother.”

Noooo, that’s not right! In the play-within-a-play, the king is murdered by his nephew, not his brother. #ShakespeareNerd

“My only regret… is that I will miss watching you become… what StarClan destined you to be.”

RIP Yellowfang… :’(

I love how they draw Cloudpaw haha. He’s a little fluffball.

“No cat has ever had a friend like you, Fireheart. But the one thing I can’t do for you… is stay.”

I was NOT expecting Graystripe’s good-bye to still hit so hard all these years later, haha. What’s Yellowfang going to do to me? XD

Dustpelt got called by his Warrior name too early. Oops. But I guess it wouldn’t be a Warrior cats book without name errors. :P

“Navy rules, Butler. You’re on my boat, you follow my orders.”
“As I remember, I brought the boat.”
“Yes, thanks for bringing my boat.”

Hahaha

I gotta say, this is a lot of fun so far! It reminds me of The Cabin in the Woods in a really good way.

There’s a long history of scholarship the author could have used to explain why the Bible doesn’t support abortion. I wish she went into that here. It would make her argument much more persuasive.

Hey, flying foxes don’t have sonar. :/ I’ve known that since reading the Silverwing series in middle school, haha.

“So maybe a miracle is anything that gets us through another day when life gets too hard.”

“I don’t know how you stand it, Amanda. Knowing [redacted due to spoilers] is in hell.”

Who says that to someone who is grieving??? That’s horrible!

Gosh… I think this must be the most heartbreaking thing I have ever read. I don’t know if a happy ending is even possible after this.

Oh no, please no. :’(

I was so much younger when Hurricane Katrina happened. Did they really show the bodies of victims on the news? That’s awful… :(

“I swear, Amanda. Why can’t you ever just shut up and look pretty?”

WHOA.

No husband should say that to his wife. EVER.

“You know what I think, Mom? I think even if she does come back, it’ll never be the same. So either way, she’s gone for good.”

:(

“A chill settled over her. The kind that confirmed what Mr. Fritz had eluded to”

Do you mean “alluded to”…?

“You’re like a sailor’s siren, Thea. Dangerous. I don’t know why, but you call me with a silent song. I’m afraid you will wreck me.”
“I’ve done nothing to you.”
“And that is why I fear you. Because you will.”

Ughhhh. Yeahhh this is why I normally don’t read romance, haha.

Not really a fan of how immature the protagonist is acting. :/ She’s in her 30s, right? She should be old enough to take some responsibility for her actions, especially when others are negatively impacted.

The section on behavioral euthanasia was really hard to read. :( It’s heartbreaking to think about how some cases of reactivity are so bad that that’s really the only option to keep everyone safe. Fortunately my dog is nowhere near that level, but it’s still not something I like to think about.

“‘When I get back tonight, I’ll take you through the ins and outs of running day-to-day chores for the lodge.’
‘Capeesh.’”

Is that an intentional misspelling or…?

“Simeon Coyle blinked. Long lashes dusted his chiseled cheekbones before raising again.”

Aw man, this is a romance book, isn’t it? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just not my genre. XD

“Some people think we believe in the supernatural because we… drink desi daru that’s strong enough to put a mustache on a baby.”

Hahaha I love that image

Ouch. Way to handle rejection DISgracefully.

??? Is it ethical for a therapist to diagnose an acquaintance of one of their patients? Especially if all they have to go on is the patient’s description of the person? That doesn’t seem right to me…

Man, my heart hurts for both Patric and her mom. :( What a difficult situation to be in, both of them just aching to understand and to be understood.

“That was the last picture of my dad I’d ever have. I’d never put his picture on display again. He’d soon be on the front of all the newspapers and on TV anyway.”

Oof. Chills.