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- I’m really sorry but I can’t feel bad for Cassia. 1. She did an honourable thing by telling Xander the truth but what did she expect? A gold medal? His gratitude? Get real! 2. She literally did this to herself by catching feelings for Ky. 3. If you’re going to fall for someone else fair enough, just don’t try to hold onto the first guy at the same time or guilt trip him when you feel bad. Pick a lane!

- She’s such a hypocrite! I love the idea that she loathes loving someone only because they told her to look at him, but she found some convoluted reasoning to escape that, so why can’t he too?
- I can’t excuse the mum for dobbing those two people in. If it’s true and the tides are turning then she did it for nothing.
- Cassia is a soft rebel. She rebels because she wants something, not for freedom for all.

- Wow so she’s thinking that she’s falling for Ky. I have a feeling he is the endgame but I don’t believe that she really loves him yet. She knows that what she loves about him is that he makes her think of freedom.
- “You think there’s nothing here because we’re not putting up a fight. But there are words in our heads that no one else knows.” I’m so proud of the fight she’s got in her now.

- I wish she hadn’t destroyed the only evidence of 2 poems she hadn’t fully memorised yet. But I understand the pressure and the fear. When I was her age at high school our history teacher told us to cut out the pages of a textbook because they contained details of a dictator our country didn’t acknowledge. I blindly followed, but I think about it often and I regret it deeply. I wish I’d refused to do it.

- “Do not go gentle into that good night.” Very fitting poem choice.
- “There’s a reason they didn’t keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight.”
- From what I remember, I always thought this book was a YA romance love triangle story and nothing much more, so I’m thoroughly surprised and happy to see it’s really leaning into the classic dystopian literary oppression trope.

- Ten years ago I joined goodreads and this is one of the first books I added to my TBR shelf.
- Ten years ago I would pick up any book with an interesting cover from the high school library and read it without reading the blurb or the online reviews. And I used to love it.
- So in honour of that, ten years later I’m reading this book without having read a single review or even the blurb. And I am enjoying it!