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"You would like an heir, wouldn't you, for your beloved Manderley? You would enjoy it, wouldn't you, seeing my son lying in his pram under the chestnut tree, playing leap-frog on the lawn, catching butterflies in the Happy Valley? it would give you the biggest thrill of your life, wouldn't it, Max, to watch my son grow bigger day by day, and to know that when you died, all this would be his?"

"I feel the same way. I hope I get to wake up next to him tomorrow. And the morning after. Nina didn't appreciate this man, but I do. She took her life for granted."

FAMOUS last words

I REALLY don't want to read a book about a guy who goes b@tsh&t crazy on his wife because she dropped him cold turkey (with no contact). No FORMAL requests for divorce or restraining orders in place (girl should have had an attorney and paperwork drawn up)- she just decides to do what she's doing instead of taking care of business and, legally, setting herself free.

WHY is Rob the only character with any kind of personality in this book? We're meeting a lot of characters in this book, but I'm having trouble keeping track because of lack of definition.

I'm only 23 pages in, but Suzanne's, seeming, lack of self preservation instinct is making me roll my eyes (a little bit).

"He realizes, yes. They would. They're looking at him- disfigured and pregnant and silent and male- and pleading for him to come home. Promising they'll overlook any and everything. Just so they know he's okay, just so he'll come back with them where he belongs.
It feels like something cracking in the back of the head. Something shattering."

HEAR ME OUT! This book is so F-d, but if you hear Cranes voice as that of a DV survivor, and the "Hive" as the society that allows/perpetuates it- Andrew Joseph White is actually a GENIUS- but people don't want to read about bugs. 🫡😭😭😭😭

As someone who has a genetic AND autoimmune disorder- I feel this so much ALSO, Jet's favorite flower is a Sunflower 🌻!? I wasn't expecting to feel personally attacked reading this, but..... HOLLY JACKSON, HAVE WE MET!?

I frown and rummage around. “Hmm. Odd. I can’t find a Pluto.” I look up at him. His eyes are different. Dead. Quiet. “Oh, there’s one.”

“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”

"Suddenly I saw the World through these very small Holes, and though twas harder to breathe, twas also somewhat easier to absorb my Surroundings this Way. Twas easier to Be- do you understand this Feeling, Reader? Suddenly I felt Free again. A different kind of Free. Like I could hide and yet show my Self at the very same Time. 🙂"

I'm kind of obsessed with the editing. The punctuation/capitalization says SO MUCH. It's been years since I've read Bunny, and I'm remembering why I loved it so.

This is a horror not a memoir.

"I am am simply going to create an opportunity."
"For whom? Yourself?"
"For Cyrus."
"He can't speak, and Sarah can't read. "
I smile at my husband. "Yet."

I'm not sure what I expected from this book, but It's intriguing so far and there's something, undeniably, romantic in the way Lawhon writes- which is strange given the subject matter, but not wholly out of place.