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Handshake meme between this book and Seraphina, where in the middle it says "canonical polyamory instead of another boring Y.A. love triangle"

*louder this time* BI BI BI

Every story from the past decade that's been hailed as the next Hunger Games needs to hand the crown over to Iron Widow *immediately*

*NSYNC voice* bi bi bi

"When you cherish someone for how amazing they are, you don't pluck them from their roots just to watch them wither in your hands. You help them bloom into the incredible thing they're really meant to be."

This book is justifiably going to be on a lot of people's best-of-2021 roundups. Probably including my own.

‪(Spoiler alert) Oh, I am so glad she actually killed that guy rather than him turning out to be a misunderstood love interest‬

Bro(nski). How do you mention that a person elected not to use gendered pronouns for themself and then continue to do just that?? In a queer history book????

Oh, I forgot Irving is white in the books. That would explain the Mr. Clean nickname, I guess.

Sigh. This new love interest is definitely a ghost, isn't he?

HA! at the veiled reference to Mira Grant's Newsflesh series. I love when book characters read other books that I like.

"Not whom you were expecting?" Um, actually, I was completely expecting for the heroes to have to confront the Dragon before the Big Bad, myself. Not sure why this is supposed to be a surprise.

Oh shit, it's the oatmeal book!

Ha. Bosch's neighbor "Jane" is definitely Cassie from Void Moon, isn't she?

F I N A L L Y. I'm sorry, but that twist has been screamingly obvious for practically the entire book.

This upcoming twist was obvious from the start, and only grows more so as the story goes on.

‪...This is just Secret Window, isn't it?‬

Not sure I like this newest development, which is the first completely inorganic thing to happen in the book.

I'm very intrigued / concerned that this book is not yet half over.

This book is not so great.

"Names have power here! I'm going to call you Rosie instead of Rose."

??????

Is this maybe my favorite Animorphs book?? Quite possibly.

Right now I'm thinking, 80% chance the doctor's kid is the killer; 15% chance it's the narrator herself. The remainder can be divided up among any other alternatives.

‪Lmao, I can't believe Agatha Christie had a character spouting All Lives Matter nonsense all the way back in 1938

Oh, so we are getting actual werewolves in this story. I was beginning to wonder.

Ugh, I hate when characters are able to guess someone's computer password. His son's name plus his birth year?? Honestly??

This book is just so... hollow compared to Sanderson's solo work. I don't think he did much of the actual writing here at all.

I'm liking this, but it is SO spoiler-heavy. Definitely not a resource for someone reading the TC books for the first time.

This is super disjointed and not much fun so far. I might finally be over this series.