I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
I'd forgotten how much I love this book: the first two are mostly hurt, and this is mostly comfort. There is hurt, and anger, incomprehension, pain, betrayal. Tension, really, but there's a lot of comfort: holding hands, holding onto one's friends, holding each other up when they're down.
A lot.
I ugly cry out of relief, because I am so touched, so moved, so, so grateful to so many of the characters in this book when they reveal who they've grown to be during the previous two books as well as this one.
Thanks for the reread, Familiar Diversions. I kinda needed that.