Everything was just way too realistic for me and way too close to home so <3 When I say that I related to this book on a whole other level, you better take my word for it as someone who has lived in the Philippines my whole life but has also seen more of the world than most other citizens.

This quote hit me a little harder knowing that people are dying for doing what is right on the same land that I am on.

"A universe where people do not die for doing what is right."

— overall thoughts: 4.50 —

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