son. She wants to speak, to scream, but there are no sounds. He picks up the club he brought from the kitchen and hits her on the forehead, right where she’s been branded. Jasmine falls to the floor, stunned, unconscious. Cecilia jumps when she hears the thud and looks at him without understanding. “Why?” she yells. “She could have given us more children.” As he drags the body of the female to the barn to slaughter it, he says to Cecilia, his voice radiant, so pure it wounds: “She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
Sooooooo….I’m a fool and misinterpreted the earlier parts of the book. While this book is still gory and fucked up and disturbing, the ending definitely alters my opinion of it. I’m finding it difficult to find a star rating for it. I think the world building/and messaging was good but also was lacking and left me doubtful and with questions. However the overall message,themes, style, and the way the ending left me feeling makes me want to give it 5 stars. I want to write an essay about this book. If only i had read this in college, it would have been so fun to analyze in a group setting. So many thoughts and feelings about this book, hard to read but impossible to put down. This will be burned into my brain forever.
