Hannah Frederick’s Reviews > Red City > Status Update

There was no one he could talk to who might understand the singular feeling of trying to regrow torn roots in unfamiliar earth.

It's interesting that Sam's entrance is an intro to alchemy and ari's entrance is an intro to Sam.

Alchemy is the science of changing something into something more desirable...Sam struggles to understand the concept, because she has never imagined more for her life, has never thought to want anything different.

When do we start wishing for a better more desirable life?

When Sam is older, she will understand that her mother didn't mean to hurt her on this day, but it doesn't really matter, because she did it anyway.

It is the gnawing fear that, without alchemy, she's nothing.

Aren't we all afraid of that? She picked characters with reflect most everyone I think. And did a good job showing all sides of one coin.

What book is "know your worth" from?

I like the circle back to the dandelions

Is monstrosity what it takes to progress civilization? Why else was mankind given this capacity for unspeakable cruelty?

What?! WILL?! I had written him off

Great splitting of the love letter excerpt