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Re: at 69% in the audio and “no publicity is bad publicity” 😂

Just when I was thinking this was a little slow to start... page 115-116, holy shit!

"Streams of blood now poured from the young faces, arms, their gnawed fingers. Chunks of flesh were ripped from their breasts, bellies, and thighs. Narrow raping snouts shoved hungrily into their genitals, in a terrible mockery of the girls' careful innocence."

Torn between 3 books to close out March:
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez (1 vote from a friend)
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (1 vote from a friend)
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon

Any thoughts on these books?

"...in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me."

I can't share the passage I want because it could be a spoiler but let's just say it is a bloody mess of a WTF! >:-)

Action really gearing up in these last pages :-O

Hermione really coming into her own...
"She had slapped Malfoy across the face with all the strength she could muster."

Some heros wear wizard's robes ;-)

** WARNING GRAPHIC **

"The little girl, whatever her name was, coloring her ponies while semen geysered over a woman's face on the television a few feet away."

"...he sometimes wanted out of the prison job, but change was such an elusive thing. A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life, was going to change it, and every day the lament became merely a part of the life he was already living, so that the desire for change was in fact a kind of stasis that allowed the unchanged life to continue..."