The next day, all the girls are sitting in the Misogyny Room, and the queen is absent, so the speculate about how she must be sick or something.  The idea that she has better things to do with her time than chat with a bunch of teenagers is, curiously, absent from the conversation. A maid…

So we skip ahead to the day that the Germans are coming to visit.  Kriss asks America what their plan is. I considered for a moment.  I disliked Celeste and wouldn’t mind seeing her fail, but I wasn’t sure I wanted her to do it on this grand a scale. I feel the need to…

For the first read-through, my impressions were that this chapter was A) ridiculously short and B) ridiculously boring. Something about worrying about something some dude said. Why did the author even bother making this a chapter?    First thing, we are blugeoned with CAPSLOCK OF CHAPTER OPENING. Yes, I know it’s a way to indicate…

Last chapter rebels attacked, America impressed me with her ability to run in slippers and after making eye contact with a rebel girl our intrepid heroine realised she’s lost in the forest. I sat at the base of the tree, legs folded up to my chest, waiting. Mom always said that was what we were…

               The chapter opens with America emerging from the safe room. She decides upon seeing a pile of rubble that it was the Southern Rebels that attacked. Just as a reminder – Southern Rebels = death. Northern Rebels = minor inconvenience. So, America concludes from the pile of rubble that these are the deadly type…