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Thoughts as I Read: The Grace Year

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Autumn

  • I hate the men already

  • At least her father’s okay.

  • Nevermind, he’s a pig.

  • Off Tierney is Katniss-level oblivious

  • Hans is sweet and so sad

  • Wait, WTF, her mother is eating human remains

  • I bet its Michael. Yup. Poor boy.

  • I don’t think these girls have magic.

  • Well, the poachers are real at least

  • Jeez, this book is a bloodbath

  • Kiersten better not survive

  • This competition for power is fierce

  • It’s really Lord of the Flies out here

Winter

  • She really said I’d rather freeze

  • Whoooooo dis?

  • Well, it’s not Hans. There goes my theory.

  • Yo she was so wrong about her dad!!!!!

  • And her mom!!!!

  • Dude, this whole society is f’ed in the b.

  • They’re falling in love. I’m not a fan of instalove but this book is hella bleak so I’ll take it.

Spring

  • Anders is going to be a problem

  • The well is poison and these girls be wildin thinking they have magic!!!!

  • The cures is smallpox?!!??!?!?!

  • Welp, he’s officially a problem

  • Go get you some, girl!

  • How is Gertrude still alive

  • There’s no way Tierney is going to survive this. They are going to cast her out or burn her at the stake.

  • I now want to know the language of flowers

Summer

  • I don’t think it’s Kiersten braiding her hair

  • It’s not Anders. He didn’t sound this smart earlier

  • OMG IT WAS HANS

  • I hate this book

  • Ugh Kiersten just go away

  • This is moving too fast, Ryker nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

The Return

  1. How did I miss that she’s pregnant

  2. Her mother is the usurper woahhhhhhh

  3. Okay these last pages are breaking my heart

  4. Michael is a class act

  5. Aw Gertrude found happiness

  6. He burned down the apothecary for her. Wait, no . FOR HIMSELF

  7. She really sees now what all the women before her have been trying to change. She is one of many powerful, beautiful, and strong women slowly changing the world for the better.

  8. Wow. Just wow.