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Knowing the ending this time around makes for an (even more) interesting read.

I'm almost ashamed by how much I'm not hating this. And how I have to force myself to put it down so I don't neglect everything else.

"He dropped to his knees, taking my face in his hands. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

I couldn't stop trembling.

"I'll try," he breathed. "I'll try to be better. I don't . . . I can't control it sometimes. The rage. Today was just . . . today was bad. With the Tithe, with all of it. Today—let's forget it, let's just move past it. Please."

Oh hell no. I am way too old to tolerate this kind of crap.

This book is going to shatter my heart. I'm calling it now. 😭

I am now singing "Mr. Bojangles" on loop.
Luckily this is not a very long book.

Look at me reading a book with a heart on it in February! I'm such a romantic.

(please, please, please let there be zero cringey things)

"My mother had the same affliction, and Yulnia, too. I've never known the men of my family to suffer so. It must be a weakness peculiar to the female mind."

Girl. Run.

You know you're not jiving with the main character when you spend each page praying that the witches get her.