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2025 - This book is very timely with what is happening in the US now. I honestly don't know if we finished this book before, but it had been sitting in Goodreads unfinished so I thought I would start it again. The opening of this book hit like a ton of bricks with closing borders and blaming immigrants for everything. Wow. Let's see where they go from here!

What these girls went through working with a 'safe' and 'healthy' element! It makes me feel weird about all the 'safe' things we ingest today. Science is constantly changing as it learns more.

I am restarting this book (for the 3rd time) with a study guide this time around. I invite you to read it with me! If there is interest, I will start a group somewhere so we can discuss what we read. Faith is not a requirement (or necessarily the outcome) of reading together, but the chance to discuss what we read together so that perhaps, we can all understand each other a little better when we are done.

I want to like this book. However, it feels like it has a very political agenda so far. Written in 2014 the issues it deals with while rather timeless, seem very much to the reader of today. Granted I am not that far into it, but the political unrest we are thrust into in the opening of the book could really use some more background.
Not sure if we will continue or chalk it up to a nice filler between books.

I'll come back to this. Put on hold for some less moody steampunk.

Very happy that Samantha has liked this too. Looking forward to more in this series. :)

Very excited to be listening to this book! I read it years ago and it has long been my favorite vampire book. Looking forward to experiencing it again.