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Lone Star by Lauren Gilley
4.0
I’ll take whatever scraps of this series I can get! This book was a little harder to follow because the story mostly takes place in the Texas chapter, even though we do see our Knoxville family too. The story also follows three different couples whom we haven’t seen much of until now. Reese and Tenny completely stole the show, and I can’t wait for more of them. Reese, “Mercy’s little murder duckling.” 😍
“It’s from a poem,” he explained. “It’s called ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade.’ I don’t really know what it’s about, but I liked that bit about the cannons. About being shot at, you know, and facing Death? It reminded me of–”
“Us,” Tenny said. “It reminded you of us.”
“People like us,” he said, relieved. “The club too, I guess.”
Tenny swallowed. “Yeah, I guess.”
“The man who wrote it was pretty famous, I think. His name was Alfred, Lord Tennyson.”
Tenny stood very still, but he vibrated like a plucked cord.
“Ten is a number,” Reese went on. “But I thought, if you were going to be Tenny, that maybe your real name could be Tennyson. Like the poet. If you like. And then you could be a person. Like me.”
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