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Now it all hits the fan. It's time for my favorite part of this book series: the big plot twist. Strap in, folks.

Omg, I never considered that. Was the broken furniture in the West Wing once alive?! Did the beast kill some of his furniture people?!

I'm up to 1.5x speed. Sure, Finn sounds like an auctioneer, but I'm getting through the book. I'm getting through it...

"If it's not Baroque, don't fix it." The line isn't in here, but must be mentioned at this juncture. Disney's non-pandering adult humor and language at its finest.

Belle acknowledges Stockholm Syndrome, which of course she's read about. Both ironic and hilarious.

Yeah, I fired up the opening music of BatB to set the scene for this book. 25 yr anniversary, baby! Let's do this! "Once upon a time in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a shining castle..."

Hey, Looping is the same punishment as the one Christmas episode of Black Mirror.

This book is just ridiculous. So freakin far-fetched. It's laughable.

Oh that's right. We were searching for the black archives. It's been so long I forgot...

I wonder if any New Yorker can read these books and then calmly and confidently walk past Patience and Fortitude ever again? I'd be scared of the lions from now on...

Paris as a Colonial Williamsburg-esque tribute to an alt history French Revolution is one of the most clever things in this series so far.

"Statues of weeping men and women, their hands covering their faces." Don't blink, Jess!

Oh my god, the juxtaposition of the German "verboten" sign with Ursula and Gretchen is genius in a single cell. Beautiful.

You either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain...

You either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain...

Next in the "little boys are stupidly innocent" series by John Boyne...

Also, his name is Pierrot. Like one of those clowns with the white suit and big black puffs. Meaningful or random?

Frack. I hate when historical knowledge ruins the suspense of HF books. The plight of the history teacher...

Haven't read a ww2 book in a while...(re: the last two books I read were ww2. I'm in a ww2 groove apparently).

"Strawberries as big as our thumbs." A child's thumb is quite small. Even by adult thumb standards, that's a tiny strawberry.

Just finished an alt WW2 history (Front Lines) and looking for something to read? May I interest you in an alt WW2 history?

Jesus almighty, how do you manage to squeeze a love triangle into a book about war?! This one could have escaped it!!! Ugh.

"Who tells the vultures?" is the perfect name for a war book. Someone get on that.

I refuse to believe military ppl say FUBAR and SNAFU every few sentences. Occasionally, sure, but these ppl use it like "the" and "and".

Wait till I sally in on a stallion, medic for a black battalion...

Literally all white males in this book are gingers. Anyone else realize that? So very much ginge.

Capt Jessep would obtain the rank of colonel and, eventually, order the historic "code red." He, in fact, could handle the truth.

And the award for stupidest names in a book goes to: this one.

Why doesn't anyone in teen books pick up on sinister undertones? Do you expect all bad people to have mustaches to tweedle as names like "Bob Evil"?!

So. Many. Potatoes. This book is, like, 45% conversation about potatoes.