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Sep 21, 2015KateHillier rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
An ambitious entry from A.S. King. Glory is 17, recently graduated high school, and is sort of stuck in limbo. Her best friend isn't really someone she cares a lot about (or who cares overmuch about her), her mother is 13 years dead by suicide, and her father though loving tends to hide in the house a lot. One night, Glory and her friend drink some beer mixed with the remains of a petrified bat and start seeing weird things. Both of them get visions of the future of the people they look at, as well as their ancestral past, and in Glory's case what she sees is horrifying as she watches women's rights slowly get stripped away and war come to the US. It's very inventive as much as it is very ambitious, perhaps a bit too ambitious, but it is a fast and compelling read just like everything else King has written. It also begs the question of what would you do knowing the future and potentially knowing you don't really have one.