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LeeRoy jumps up and down, slapping his thighs. “H, you’ve done rapped. Slow as all get-go, but it’s a genuine rap. You’re surely the first Vietnamese rapper in all of Texas.”

Her eyes are red and puffy, but by God she’s half smiling. “Du rai pô-èm?” “If you want to call that a poem, then sure thing, I wrote a poem.” “Bét pô-èm.” Her eyes, still red, are laughing. “Bad? If you think you can do better, go at it, missy.”

She’s reminiscing while LyRoy talks...

No need for pin pricks. More slitherings, more crazed itching. Until a soft dullness of nothing. I was instructed to stand, to witness hundreds of tiny white worms swimming in elation.

She clutches his hand, remains seated. She pierces into him, unblinking, “Du thóc, Ai bét-tờ.”

You talk. I’m better. Awwwwwww!

I love all the language exploration we get as Hang struggles to put together 5 sentence stories to get her brother to remember her, and as she struggles to understand all of LeeRoy’s words.

An unexpected delight is LeeRoy himself who takes Hang’s temper and tries to get both sides to accept the other. He’s the reason David is even listening to Hang at all!

“Ai em nót Chai-ni-sì!”

I don’t think it matters if his 12 year old sister handed him off to an American in the airport it doesn’t give Cora any more right to Linh/David. But I applaud Hang wanting to respect that her brother loves the woman and sees her as his mom. I wish Cora would do her the same respect!

Gahhhh she finally found her brother but he refuses her and his adopted mother screams for them to get off her land. It’s pretty sad. Her uncle catches up to her and wants to go the legal route but she wants to stay and just sit on the boundaries of the land...

Awww Mrs. Brown gets a version of the story out... all about wild horses Hang wanted to see in America. And she knows where Linh is too having received a Christmas card from his new mother. I really loved how we got subtle shadings of what Mrs. Brown thought and why she decided to tell.

Every word in Vietnamese is monosyllabic, a compact, crisp language where the drama lies not in syllables but within minute tonal shifts.

Neat language references! Our cowboy was drafted by an older couple to drive her after the bus driver left her at a rest stop.

“Listen to uncle, the child missing, you stay.” Her uncle sounded awkward in a language long unused, his pronunciation clashing like spilled pots and lids.

Love the writing!

Wow... the pace is swift switching between the two POVs. I love the writing and word choices. I’m totally captured by these two and their situations... her with her guilt over her brother and him with his fanboying over cowboys!

So we got the series rundown in this chapter and a pretty good one at that! I. Ready to jump onto this...

Awww I loved this! The poems are perfect to get children interested in poetry and to think about the small moments.

Wow! The last 20% really wowed me!! I didn’t see how the end could fit in that little bit but it did! Really a 5 star end!

I really am enjoying Saltere 1! They found the baby but are worried about parents...!

I think it’s contrived that Court and Mykal have to uncouple... it’s just to cause angst. Not much happened in this 15% though Stork did reveal why his name is Stork and we learned about lifebloods! Which is really fascinating with its connection to old earth.

Woot! Our old friends arrive!!

I also don’t understand why Saltarians don’t die if you send them into space or explode them?!

Woah! The three earth admirals gave their lives in return for Court, Mykal and Franny... they watch the execution with Knave squadron. Stork’s squad. It’s pretty horrific though I understand Court’s reaction... I wouldn’t take a guilt trip either. Especially seeing as they aren’t allowing them to choose from a place of knowledge.

Woah I’d have never guessed that was what was going to get them out of that cell! But I’m enjoying this!! I like Stork and that we get his POV too!

The last page Himari has to face her sin...!!

On the last page the mangaka explains we’re going into the final arc of the series. I’m sad to see it go but happy to see how it turns out!

56 - Kasha takes Aoi into the sin shadows... Himari jumps in too... Aoi saw the truth in the box Kasha showed him... he is connected to a line of sin that makes it so Momochi house would never have consumed him. That’s why Nue was making Himari his bride and an ayakashi so he would always have her at his side. He actually isn’t kept In The house he just won’t leave!

55 - Kasha consumes Aoi’s shikigami with his flames of darkness... pulling them back into nightmares of their greatest sin. I loved getting a touch more about their back history. Then Aoi gives them the power to break free by calling them to him! Himari rushes to his side as Kasha goes to attack Aoi.

This really had me going!! I though Nue was going all bad in his black outfit and he really wanted Himari! He even took her soul out of her body and put it in her robes! Kasha came and pulled it out.

54 - the battle between Nue and his shikigami was intense and so well drawn! At first it seems like he succumbed to the house and was fulfilling his evil desires... but instead it was a trick to reveal the center pillar of the house so they could destroy it. He didn’t consume Aoi’s soul because the demon that came out would curse a human.Kasha determines to break him down bit by bit.

53 - Nue realized that Kasha was going to trap Ali’s soul through the house so he could play with him but when Himari came it rewrote the spell to turn her into an ayakashi. Hakka meanwhile tricks the Aoi puppets into getting Yukari to come help! He and the other shikigami come to stop the wedding!

52 - Aoi explains his past to her with Kasha. He followed him around traveling through the spirit world. He lost his heart... but it seems an execution caused him to wake up. He doesn’t believe he made any promises to Kasha... but he feels he isn’t as good as she thinks. The wedding preparations are now done! He marries her and she becomes an ayakashi!!

This bubbled up quick but it paired really well with Ran dealing with a Hibi and learning some magic at her natural age. There were bare breasted woman but otherwise I really loved this volume.

23 - WOAH! Otano has suddenly become a very dangerous villain now that he’s been possessed. He comes and destroys all of the protections that Zen and Shiruza have in place at their village. She barely seals the village after the evacuation and the seal will break but they go home to talk about their future. It ends with Jin coming home to the house filled, his room with naked woman and the house 5 stories high!!

21 - After Otaru and Ran meet and he asks for a kiss and she says no at first but he says he’ll wait till she’s in love... after he falls to the ground... it’s not a cold. The larvae in his brain has awakened and the crows come to fight him. He takes them out... the doctor comes but it’s too strong!! He overwhelms the guys protecting the pools...