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Part 3 thrusts you right back to where part 1 ended. Knowing the backstory really changes how I see part 1. Devastating. Beautiful and also so ugly. I didn’t see the major twist coming which I really commend. But now these painfully scarred and tortured souls have found their way back to each other and their love and trauma bond is so strong, but right now it’s completely hopeless.

Wow, this story is unapologetically tragic and dark and I can’t read stuff like this often—it’s so intensely lamentable but still an amazing read. Both main characters are being held as ransom against one another (figuratively) and it’s as if their individual survival within themselves depends on the other’s survival. They are so deeply manipulated that they turn to each other to find any sense of worth.

Ok wow, there was a dream/memory sequence, extremely fragmented and confusing as part 1 came to an end. Now as the chapters in part 2 begin to build you can see where these fragments come from and it hints to a fraught but intense relationship budding in the years before the story starts. I could feel my dna changing as my mind knit it all together 🤯

Chapters 18 and 19. What the actual f*#%!?

According to Libby, I have spent 7 hrs and 7 mins listening to the first 2 hours of this audiobook. I have fallen asleep and woken up hours in multiple times. Even the times I have been able to stay awake I have felt lost a lot. I know it’s supposed to be unique enough to stand alone and not require previous series, but the world building is extremely dense and not new-user friendly. I’m pushing though though