Maureen Vercruysse's Reviews > Into the Fire

** spoiler alert ** Sadie’s Blackwell universe is always good but this one really struck me for its social commentary. Lilah is like the rest of us, working for every penny, stuck in the cracks of society, aware that if we disappeared, like the unnamed girl in the story, we’d be quickly forgotten if our disappearance was noticed at all. She follows the mystery not just because it affects her but because she wants that girl to matter. I found this quite profound…



“Would someone who had the luxury to wage a war have been behind a seedy bar in a nowhere town at two in the morning? Would they have been hauling out a bag of trash at a time when they would have seen the girl being shoved into the car? No, that was left to people like me. And being in the trenches of life instead of high on a hill didn’t mean I didn’t give a shit about other people. If anything, I felt more connected to the girl. Who was she? Was she someone like me? Someone who didn’t have people in the world who would know if she went missing? Maybe I had it wrong. Maybe those of us who didn’t have the luxury had to stick together since no one else seemed to give a shit about us.”