Before the Devil Breaks You

I made a point to listen to this on audiobook because I loved January LaVoy's narration on previous books and thought it really added to the story. (Plus the different voices she does makes it a little easier to keep track of all the characters.) The audiobook is 20+ hours but I listened to it all in a week because I would frantically put it on any time I had even 5 minutes to plug in.

Anyway, I love this series, I love these characters, I love all the historical context–Libba Bray does a remarkable job of using all of her research to frame and add depth to the story without getting Outlander disease (which causes your book to break out in long lists of #herbs). I'm so on board for all of this. It's great historical fiction, it's great ~paranormal~ fiction, it's great government conspiracy fiction, it's great romance (including queer and potentially-asexual-figuring-it-out romance), IT'S ALL SO GREAT AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FINAL BOOK AHHHH

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re-listened to, still fucking loved it. Listening to all of them in succession makes me admire even more how Libba Bray went from the smaller more personal stories to this big conspiracy...ugh! The narrative structure! The character development! The intersectionality! Simply no choice but to stan!