Brilynn’s Reviews > Hell Bent > Status Update

The devil knows your name now, Galaxy Stern.

Was I ever here? Alex wondered. Had she died alongside Hellie? Had she ever been more than a ghost passing through this place?

You too, little star. The reply came fast, as if her mother had been waiting. But Mira had been waiting by the phone a very long time. For a call from the hospital, the cops, the morgue.

Some part of him had believed there was no world outside of Black Elm, no street at the end of the drive, no town beyond. He had forgotten how big things could feel, how crowded with life, how beautiful it could be to know the season, the month, the hour, to simply say, It is winter.

He’d probably kicked a few doors down in his time, without knowing what trouble might be waiting on the other side. But this wasn't really like that, was it? They were pilgrims. They were cosmonauts. They were as good as dead.

Had he thought there would be dignity in this? But this was what real magic looked like—indecent, decedent, perverse. Welcome to Yale. Sir, yes, sir.