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Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray
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bookshelves: continuations, historical-fiction, horror, published-2017, young-adult, running-books, read-2018, read-2021
Read 3 times. Last read April 19, 2021 to April 23, 2021.

Full review to come once I get over my book hangover. I love this series and I push this to everyone who loves ghosts, NYC in the 1920s, and diversity and realistic issues. This book only took me so long to read because I didn't want it to end. Cannot wait for book 4.
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Libba Bray
“We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity. We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and genocide, the injustice of racism and exclusion. These realities exist side by side. It is our past and our present. The future is unwritten. This is a book about ghosts. For we live in a haunted house.”
Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You

Libba Bray
“All the times I say, ‘Don’t see me’? With you, I wish I had an opposite power: See me. See me, Evie. See all of me. There’s a fella who loves you right here. I’m not perfect. I’m a handful. But you know what? So are you. There. Not sugarcoating it.”
Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You

Libba Bray
“There was such fear in the world. But love was everywhere if you looked. It was the best thing about humans. That they could stare into the abyss and still open up their hearts. A spit in the eye to fear.”
Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You

Libba Bray
“As I write this, we are in an especially divisive era in American politics. There are questions about who holds power, who abuses it, who profits from it, and at what cost to our democracy. It is a time of questions about what makes us American, of shifting identities, inclusion and exclusion, protest, civil and human rights, the strength of our compassion versus the weakness of our fears, and the seductive lure of a mythic "great" past that never was versus the need for the consciousness and responsibility necessary if we are truly to live up to the rich promise of "We the People."

We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity.

We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and genocide, the injustice of racism and exclusion. These realities exist side by side. It is our past and present. The future is unwritten.

This is a book about ghosts.

For we live in a haunted house.”
Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You


Reading Progress

January 5, 2018 – Shelved as: next-up
January 5, 2018 – Shelved
January 5, 2018 – Shelved as: continuations
January 5, 2018 – Shelved as: historical-fiction
January 5, 2018 – Shelved as: horror
January 5, 2018 – Shelved as: published-2017
January 5, 2018 – Shelved as: young-adult
January 29, 2018 – Shelved as: to-read
February 13, 2018 – Started Reading
February 13, 2018 – Shelved as: running-books
February 13, 2018 –
5.0%
February 25, 2018 –
14.0%
February 25, 2018 –
19.0%
March 2, 2018 –
25.0%
March 5, 2018 –
30.0%
March 5, 2018 –
35.0%
March 6, 2018 –
42.0%
March 7, 2018 –
48.0%
March 8, 2018 –
58.0%
March 9, 2018 –
66.0%
March 9, 2018 – Finished Reading
March 14, 2018 – Shelved as: read-2018
January 31, 2020 – Started Reading
February 3, 2020 – Finished Reading
April 19, 2021 – Started Reading
April 23, 2021 – Shelved as: read-2021
April 23, 2021 – Finished Reading

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