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Guys...this is gunna be a good one!!

Ok I’m on page 4 and I am really enjoying this book so far! I have highlighted a ton of passages and quotes already. And remember, I’m only on page 4! I have high hopes for this one and can see it as being a potentially high rated book. We shall see...

A boy and also a legend: you were seventeen years old when a .22 caliber bullet split you in two. In one world, the one over your hospital bed, you became the Martyr of Bliss, TX. Locked in that bed, you lost your true dimensions, Rose like a vapor, a disembodied idea in the hazy blue sky over Big Bend Country.

Maybe you were born to become nothing more than a myth.

Maybe you were born to become nothing more than a myth.

I’m really nervous to read this. It looks eerily reminiscent of current events.

Lila’s internal monologue was very heartfelt and honest.

Speech about sons was tough to read

It feels like a funeral Mary thought. It was so undeniable like death was-bright enough to scald your eyes, cool enough to go through your coat and your sweater and raise goosebumps along your skin.

Arguments for and against returning.

All of the women in the world come back but only if all of the Dooling women decide to come back. The women in this town stand for all women.

Haha! When Frank asks Evie who’s in charge of the rodeo, she says “Do you mean the Great Lesbian in the sky? A short, heavyset deity wearing a mauve pantsuit and sensible shoes? Isn’t that the image most men get when they think a woman is trying to run their lives?”

Good dialogue by Evie saying who she is and who she isn’t. To kill Evie or not to kill Evie...that is the question and a test.

Why doesn’t Clint just lock Evie up in the bulletproof tollbooth where the visitors check in? Why doesn’t he outfit her head to toe I police riot gear? Things I’m thinking while reading about this war that’s about to begin

Evie tells Clint to let her die so the women can live in their new world and choose the way their world is. Clint counters and says it’s lives that Evie chose for them.

Evie is telling Clint that the women in “our place” will raise their male children to know themselves and know their world. Clint says their nature will assert itself with time and they will eventually fight. Evie says such aggression isn’t sexual nature, it’s human nature.

Aurora wasn’t a virus, it was an enchantment, and Evie Black was like no woman no human who had ever existed. You couldn’t fix something that was beyond human understanding with a hammer, which was what Frank Geary and Terry Coombs and the other men outside the prison presumed they could do. This required a different approach.

Griners are smarter than I thought...using reverse psychology

The Griner brothers sent a kid to the prison with a message to Frank and Terry. “That woman in the prison there, the special one, she’s got friends in town. Lots of them...stop what you’re doing and go away, or the police station will only be the first thing to go.” I like this twist! They likely are actually just trying to clear the way to kill Kitty, but if it helps Evie then I’m all for it. Team Griners!

I like how the men up at the prison said someone would literally need a bazooka to get through the wall and now the Griner brothers are heading up there with a bazooka.