Haley Newlin’s Reviews > The Reformatory > Status Update

For the first time, Gloria understood the liberation of having nothing left to lose

The Klan took bets on if Gloria was inside while the cabin burned and if she’d come running out on fire

This scene is so frightening and infuriating

After the Klan burns the cabin, the people of Lower Spruce stand on their porches, armed and ready

“They don’t care who it is—man, woman, or child. Once it starts—they don’t care. They’ll treat you like you ain’t from the same God as them. Like they the devil.”

Miz Lottie on the burning by the klan and mobs of white men

“There would be burning tonight.”

Gloria’s worst fear - the klan

Blue’s revenge and escape plan

Huge twist about the haint Warden Haddock wants most of all. I didn’t see this coming

Warden Haddock disguises threats as favors

Haddock wants to recruit Robert to hunt haints but excuses the spirit of his baby sister, who he might have killed

“I am a man of God and duty” - what a load of bs

Haddock “wasn’t satisfied with beating and hunting boys who were alive: he hunted dead ones too.”

Boone turns their souls to ash and Haddock collects them in a jar. Haddock squeezes every ounce of hurt out of these children, even in death