AAAAAAA god, I re-listened to this series before listening to this one on audiobook (January LaVoy continues to CRUSH IT as a narrator btw) and it's so impressive how these characters and this story developed over the course of the 4 books, and how grounded in America's grim history these are in a way that is so so upsettingly relevant now almost 100 years after these books are set.

But also these characters are so funny and charming and root-for-able.

Another thing I think Libba Bray does really well are these kind of interstitial one-off scenes with characters who are about to meet tragic supernatural ends, where she can so quickly introduce a character and get you invested in them just enough that it's awful when they die, but not like, devastating.

UGH JUST SO GOOD AAAAAAAAA