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Okay, yeah. She needs to shut up about slavery right now.

"Slaves. There was no other word for what they were." How about human? I don't know if I trust this author to have this conversation. And by I don't know I mean I don't. Her heart's in the right place, but no. Luckily I assume that she will leave this area where there are these enslaved black people and never return after the scene. 🙃

There is no consistency. One second it's her mom who hates change and her aunt who loves it because she's afraid of things staying the same. That was like the whole story actually. Now all of the sudden her aunt was afraid of change? Then why exactly did she always need to go to a new country? Why did she quit her dream job after one success? Why did she run away from a relationship with Vera? Am I crazy??

Her quitting her job is the weirdest rich girl twist this book could throw. She literally has a great job and work/life balance! She travels extensively on vacation every year! She works with her best friends and takes long lunches! She loves, works with, and gets free books! She acts like she hasn't been able to live her life because she's such a grinder. This girl does not know grind!

She disappeared from his life 7 years ago. How does she not understand that would affect him??

I'm getting the impression Clementine isn't the brightest bulb in the bunch...

I like how she thinks people would think she's a "child of chaos" because her passport is full of stamps. Honey. People will just know you grew up rich.

I am enjoying this excessively. I don't want it to end!

The way this writer so clearly has no respect non pastoral or evangelical Quakers is soo obvious. I don't know why I keep being surprised.

Been a while since I've read a book quite like this. I am absolutely enjoying it.

This has definitely grown on me

This might be a little bit too violent for me...

For how light this books seems to be, it's crazy long. Come on, Wilsner, I have a book club to get to!!

Third act conflict exceedingly and disappointingly stupid

Kind of doubting if I should be reading this at this point. Before, it was just clear bias, now I'm catching straight up historical errors and misleadings. Again, this man became president of a college??

The way this man just shat on liberal Quakers as "children" for having the audacity for believing that the Bible wasn't the end all be all of being a good person and a Quaker is INSANE. Especially since he admits that was the common Quaker belief at the time, but that they "failed to understand" things because Quakerism had fallen to such a "low state". The fact the author became the president of a college is crazy

The way my jaw just dropped when a list of early Quaker leaders only included men and didn't even include James Naylor. 4 men get paragraphs (besides Fox) & then a no context list that has one woman: Margaret Fell. I've only ever read books on Quakerism that were either my branch or academic and not affiliated with any branch. It's crazy how full of bias this book is and how different the religion is portrayed! Wild.

This is way better than I expected it to be

I'm really struggling with this one. And lately it's just been so grim. Wish amongst the multiple perspectives at least someone wasn't in such dire straits.

I'm really liking the writing style so far

All I want to do is read this book. It's actually a problem.

I wanted to this to be so much better than it is. Lottie's chapters are sooooo phoned in

I really hope this isn't another story of a power hungry woman and terrible mother. At least Hatshepsut's reign is portrayed as the success it was. Somehow this is the case even though she presents as petty and insecure. Since it's so early on, I'm hoping things will be elaborated to show her in a better light

As someone who has witnessed a surprise volcano eruption that had horrible consequences, the chapter describing the escape from an eruption here left me with chills.

Things are getting good! I just wish more perspectives were being given as much attention as Ead's.

I know this has just been me complaining about this book, but now every woman he runs into has a thought bubble of "wow, he's so cute!" or "just my type!" 🤦🏽‍♀️

He's added "I'm not racist like this lower class soldiers who want to end my upper class way of life are" to his narrative. I really hope it's just the translation because this writing is just not good.