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So confusing. The monk and and the abbot and the woman from Gamache’s past with Daniel, plus a nun. A mission. A huge leap to “someone is going to poison the water very soon!” I just don’t get it.

Evidently I haven’t liked the last 3 books in the series. Not sure I’ll read any more, especially with the new narrator

Thought I might just dislike the MC because of the narrator, but it turns out the author is the narrator 😬

Already dubious. Martha is unlikable and pompous. But of course her children and husband are perfect. Its modernity doesn’t fit with the time period.

Very good will hunting. All the poor kids want so badly for their genius friend to get out of the small town.

So unbelievable, all the people in love with art and constantly quoting poets. Getting eye roll inducing

Loved this in the beginning. The longer it goes on, the more terrible it makes me feel that I don’t have these super intense friendships or a perfectly clear memory of the summer I turned 15. Everyone is just so damn philosophical, even the 18 year old girl. All about art. Art, art, art is the jabbing for everything. This book feels smothering, in a way.

There is zero nuance to these books. The “good” guy is obviously bad, the “bad” guy is secretly noble and heroic. It’s like being hit over the head with old tropes. The “quips” that are supposed to make the MC look smart are cringey and stupid. This sold millions of copies? This is the dumbing down of America.

God I hate this book.

So is this whole series a Divergent knockoff? Cause these “isles” seem exactly like factions. Warriors, knowledge-based, happy..

Good book, written like YA so much that I thought it was YA until they spicy scenes started. It’s very slow? Repetitive? I’m just not sure it needs to be this long for what happens. Ken Follett built an entire cathedral and spanned 100 years in the same number of pages that it’s taken to get through one school year. It’s a bit disconcerting, the simple language and story line, then wham, graphic sex scenes.

This book is way, way too long and repetitive. I hate books where even 3/4 though everyone still doesn’t believe in the very obvious monster. Also this guy’s fear of vomit is so stupid.

Chapter 32 - she won’t tell anyone Matt hit her because then he’ll say she hit him back and that will make people think she’s capable of murder? Huh?

Chapter 30 annoyance/mistake.. Maya first says that Savvy told her only she and Lucy knew, then in the SAME chapter says “I wish I knew you knew” WTF

Slow slow slow

Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Two Talented Bastids - 3
The Fifth Step - 2
Willie the Weirdo - 2

I’m like 99% sure that’s NOT how cell phone forensics works. You can’t track the location of a phone WITHOUT the phone.

DNF at 25% or so. Too heavy for right now. Will try again later.

Narrators are not good. Every girl has a NY accent, like the narrator can’t think of how to differentiate them any other way. Not nearly enough trauma considering — no way to believe everyone just accepted this. The Gardener is stupid name. Does he spend millions on this compound? And his wife doesn’t notice this HUGE place he goes?

I get that this is just one big metaphor for colonialism being bad, but is it really even metaphor if is plainly stated every 2 minutes? Why bother with the magic part? Even though I know it’s about colonialism, no new points are made, and I’d argue nothing about this whole overblown book even makes much of a case. China is being taken over by opium and minorities are used. That’s all she could think of?

I’m almost 18 hours into this book and I don’t like it any better than I did at 30%.
-the magic is the centerpiece of the whole long-ass affair and yet it is so boring and pointless! Fucking match pairs??
-I don’t like any of the characters, for what I know about them, which isn’t much for 18 freaking hours
-the narration interruptions and footnotes are so jarring

Considering DNFing.

Sooooo slow

Bumping the speed up because I can’t wait for this to be over. It’s draggingggggg. Millie is stupid. If I have to hear about how her boring boyfriend is a good guy, I’m going to vomit. He’s obviously bad, it’ll turn out. And obviously Wendy is bad. How can this drag on for another 4 hours?!

Paused at chapter 10 because it’s due back on Libby.

How could she have gotten a dna test from her father in 1977? If she was 18 and born the year the family died?

I really have to thank that dressmaker 🙄

The traditional girl stuff thrown in is distracting and out of character.

Soooo good! I’ve listened to 34 hours ABBA am so sad I only have 4.5 left. 😩

She never asks the right questions, or tells people the right information.