Status Updates From Something's Wrong With Madd...

In the last 10% this becomes the book I want it to be........

Decision: I do not like how the cis people in this story treat Piper.

See there's this bit where Piper has firmly decided what to do, and is full of resolve, right? And she comes home to find the door open and just goes 'gee wonder who she ate this time'? It would hit a lot harder if she hadn't been rolling her eyes and saying 'lol quirky' all book.

How cool is Josh, if he's not allowed the t-slur pass but tries anyway...........

"Hey, you kissed the corpse!" Miffed that this novel beat me to the necrophilia joke...

I guess the flesh-eating puts this less in conversation with Imago or Cassandra After and more with This Delicious Death. Which is cool too.

Alright, so the socially awkward is going for pathos. I feel a few ways about it.

I don't think this book has very serious politics, either. Not that it needs to be a new manifesto, but it's a lot of yapping about white supremacists and crypto and such. Feels like the throughline is "no objectionable stances".

There are so many instances of the word "vibes" in this...

"Don't bully me or I'll cum" is probably the first thing in this entire book to make me laugh, even if it is misquoted slightly.

Thinking about it, this is actually structured a lot like Our Wives Under the Sea...

"That was actually made up for the 1985 movie tReturn of the Living Dead. That's a relatively new trope." Har har, Steph, you're harshing the vibes.

The whole thing where Piper explains to Steph at the store what she did, and both of them eye-roll about it all *so that just happened* is exactly what I mean. Why is our lead silly not deadly serious about this? She just got done committing corpse crimes, and she still can't have a conversation without it being a comedy routine...

WHY IS THE BOOK PUSHING INTO MY FACE HOW AWKWARD PIPER IS. I'M JUST CRINGING FOR YOUR GIRL. WHAT PURPOSE DOES IT SERVE

"Grizzly kill"? It's "a grisly kill", right?