"When the light that kisses the back of her eyes was birthed, her ancestors were not yet born. How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her? 
 How many people have loved only to have lost? How countless, the hopes that have died?" 
 I haven't felt the things I felt while reading this book in a long, long time. I've been disappointed in the YA genre for so long that this book felt like a miracle. I don't know how Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff did it. How they NAILED this perfect mixture of sass, storyline, humour, suspense and action in one book. 
 The banter in many books is forced with a plier into the shape it takes but the bantz in this book made me laugh long and hard and I cannot wait to feast myself on the gallows humour in Gemina. 
 "That's so not your business it almost punches clean past the event horizon of Not Your Business and becomes Your Business again." 
 My only problem (is it even a problem?) with this book was that it was a bit hard to get into--I could've been deprived of this wonderful jewel of a book if I had been only slightly lazier or a little less bored. 
 "The poor woman used to be a geologist before they made her a counselor, and the only thing she's got going for her is that our group is about as easy to talk to as a bunch of rocks." 
 At the risk of repeating myself, I ADORE this book. Ain't nothing under da sun like it. 
 I would spout some spoilers and kick back and really enjoy the book again but I'm still devastated and I need a room for a decade to get my bearings so I can revisit this book. 
 Until then, ciao.