Maud and Emile and A here. It's collab time.
So you can differentiate between us when we're "talking", the text will be colour-coded. Maud is green, A will be yellow, and Emile will be red.
Before we begin the spoiler discussion down below, it's time to announce to March book of the month! For those who don't know, the February book was Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, the March book of the month is....
*drumroll*
Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare! *confetti*
Now, if you haven't read Salt to the Sea yet, and don't want to be spoiled, I don't recommend you click on the page break. Don't.
But before you go if you post any pictures of Lady Midnight on Twitter or Instagram don't forget to hashtag #aipladymidnight so we can see your posts.
Spoiler warning down below.
Time for the discussion!
My favourite part of the book was the characters.
My favourite character was the shoe poet. He was like bae.
My favourite characters were the shoe poet and Ingrid.
Oh I loved Ingrid!
Yeah oh my goodness when she fell through the hole it broke my heart.
For some reason I really liked the bit when the ship was leaving and all the mothers were throwing their children at the ship, it just made it really real.
It was awful though that bit.
I can't believe that actually happened. It was near the end as well.
Way to make us cry.
That was horrific.
The worst part was when Emilia was on the raft and she sang the little lullaby about you know All the little duckies with their heads in the water. And she was talking about the children!
They were all so desperate but they didn't have a chance.
My favourite part was when the shoe poet was trying to get to the boy on the ship at the end and the relationship they had.
The way all the characters had different relationships with each other was my favourite part. Each character brought out a different part of another character.
Apart from Alfred. I wanted to stab him.
Oh I hated Alfred!
When we first met him I thought he was okay but he kept getting worse. I want to know what his obsession with butterflies was. You know he mentioned it and he never said why. I was really interested in what that was actually about.
It was such a shock to find out that Emilia was pregnant. I never would have guessed that.
I was expected her to have been stabbed or something, to have an infected wound.
It was sad though when the baby was born and she wouldn't look at it.
I know I was worried it would never be looked after.
The thing is when we found out she was pregnant I thought she had been raped, then we found out that she had a boyfriend and I was so relieved, only to find out later that it was a lie and she actually had been raped! I felt so awful.
That was so sad when we found that out.
You know how Alfred wrote those mental letters to Hannelore, it was kind out obvious that something had happened to her but it was still weird when we found out.
At first the letters really confused me. I was like, who is this Hannelore person?
I would like to have known more about their relationship.
Wait, what actually happened with Hannelore?
I don't know.
Alfred told them she was Jewish, and then when they came to talk her he said to tell them she wasn't Jewish but she refused.
At the end I was confused when Emilia's baby only knew that her mother had been brave, and nothing else.
My least favourite bit was when they found the people dead in their beds.
What made it so interesting was that the enemies were the allied forces whereas because we're British we only hear about the enemies being the axis forces.
It was interesting hearing it from the perspective of the Nazis being good.
We're going to end it there because this isn't the best format for a discussion, we're working on how we're going to do this.
If you have any thoughts of ideas on Salt to the Sea, let us know in the comments!
(and A)
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