All the Crooked Saints

by Maggie Stiefvater

Left to their own devices, radio waves would not be audible for much more than forty or fifty miles. They travel on perfectly straight paths from their broadcast source, and because the Earth is round, it does not take them long to part ways with the ground and head out to the stars. Wouldn’t we all, if we had the chance?

Two pages in & we already have a detailed description of a car I’ve never heard of - that’s how you know Maggie Stiefvater wrote this book

The desert, which was not given to sympathy or sentiment, was nonetheless moved, and for the first time in a long time, it loved someone back.