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Exodus

Kate Stewart

4.29 AVERAGE

adventurous slow-paced
dark emotional sad medium-paced

Rarely do I like “real life” books as much as I liked this one. I usually save my five stars for my shadow daddies. But I loved this book.

“It’s always about love with you.”
-I adore this quote. It perfectly sums ups the book.-

I left a piece of my heart to this book.
My heart is broken. A part of me will always cry for that...


-“Endearment, adoration, devotion, warmth, attachment; also synonyms for love.”-“You think it’s love, but the truth is, you’re an addict,”


The roller coaster this book had my heart on is simply unfair, but I couldn’t get off. Flock was incredible, and Exodus wrecked me. Kate Stewart quickly made her way to the top of my author list.
challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

How do I coherently say I loved the emotional trauma but disliked the actual plot? And don’t get me started on that ending. Allllll that we went through …. For ….. that? This was toxic in all the wrong ways 
emotional sad
medium-paced

Okay, so that was heartbreaking.

Most of my book intake these days is lighter frivolity as a vacation from daily stresses, so I didn't pick this book up thinking I was about to cut onions... but I can't say I regret reading it either. There was so much unnecessary pain and toxicity and avoidable fallout that I wanted to shoulder shake the MCs, but to think that humans aren't just this fallible and fear blinded... just this capable of repetitious self destructiveness, even when well intended, would be naive and unrealistic.

I enjoyed this duet and this author, but damned if I'll pick another one of her books up unprepared again.
dark emotional sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes