The Restoration Program as memes for @kendsleyauthor and @marydublinauthor
I’ve had this book for a while, but I waited to read it till I was in a good headspace because I knew it was gonna be ROUGH, and I’m glad I did 🫣😬🫡Although, anything that has to do with the Trinket universe is was gonna be messed up… 🫠🫠🫠
Everytime someone says “What was lost has been restored,” I think: “The Greater Good” 😶
Ryan: “Just because you would’ve happily let mom die if you were in my position…”
Me if I put the book down at page 208 (the wedding) and lived the rest of my life in ignorant bliss😌👰♀️🤵♂️
Ryan if he was in the department store and that child tried to grab Nicole. (No one would have been safe.)
Ryan: “I’ll never be like him, I promise you.”
Me @ Ryan when he starts isolating Nicole from other people:
Ryan: “Just because you can’t take care of Rebecca the same way anymore doesn’t give you the right to judge me for how I handle my own business.”
People online theorizing what NüPrints are…
Nicole: “You never would have done this to me if I was human!”
Carlos and Dr. Burman running away together
Me @ Ryan when he disrespected Nicole’s bodily autonomy, ignores her feelings on where she wants to go or see, deliberately lied about getting kicked out of the partners group, gaslit her, cheated on her, Killed her, and especially when he doesn’t listen to her when she says no:
Me at the implication they already started making the Trinkets…
Ryan at the end: (He gaslit, gatekept, and girlbossed too close to the sun) (And it seems like he never learned…)
Dr. Burman when someone derails his sessions:
Me after finishing the Restoration Program:
I will say, I knew this was going to have a bad ending from all the posts on Insta and Tumblr. So from the start I had a feeling Ryan was going to end up killing Nicole. (So… Yay me? I got it right?)
My original theory was that she was going to be the first Print to get pregnant (I think I remember reading that Prints can have kids and Trinkets can’t. Maybe I made that up.) And THEN he was going to kill her.
I will say, when they were discussing bringing her back to life (after Ryan killed her), I was so scared they were gonna turn her into a Trinket. I really thought that’s where this was going… but Nicole’s ending was a lot worse. A never ending cycle of life and death, not knowing what happened in her previous lives or if Ryan will really learn and do better.
I think the worst part about all this is that in the eyes of the law, Nicole is not considered human anymore (more like property), and because of this, Ryan never faces any consequences for killing her (possibly MULTIPLE times). So as long as Ryan (or anyone for that matter) has enough money, they can keep making mistakes and hurting/killing the Prints with no repercussions... The sentiments that they are not humans and have no right will eventually lead to the mistreatment of Trinkets and the ostracization of the Prints in the future. People will justify the mistreatment of Trinkets because most of them were convicted of crimes (falsely accused or not), so people think Trinkets are getting what they deserve.
I think I’m a little traumatized by red string🤪
Now I need to go lie down. 🫠
Awesome story as always! 💙