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What if time travel was managed by a government agency? Apparently, it would render time travel so completely boring that I simply cannot continue.

Fun concept with an important message, but the execution is unfortunately lacking for me. A book about women spontaneously turning into dragons and gobbling up the worst of the patriarchy should not be this boring. Pity!

Ahhhhhhhh how are you gonna confront the killer on your own like that 🫣

This feels like true crime, which I kind of forgot I enjoy? Also, mom better get some comeuppance.

Already kind of bummed this is a stand-alone, and also low-key worried our heroes won't survive. 🫣

Why do end-of-the-world stories always sink their claws into me like this?

This is a bummer. I loved the first book in this series, but I absolutely cannot bring myself to care about these characters, even the younger version of the MC from Writers & Lovers. 🤷‍♀️

If schadenfreude was a book. This is f**king brilliant.

What in the world am I reading?

God I just love these books.

Gaaaaaaah I love them so much. I laughed. I cried.

A book hasn't hooked me like this in a long time. I have high hopes.

Does being a bridesmaid in 5 weddings in the space of 1.5 months count as horror? Feels like it to me.

Low key really hoping Gretchen is the murderer.

Protect Theo Lubec AT ALL COSTS.

"People who love you for your usefulness don't love you at all."

I am filled with such rage.

"Really what she wants to be is a mother who isn't in pain. She wonders if such a woman exists."

"So often what gets called illness, sickness in women is actually a quite rational reaction to atrocity and evil."

With my apologies to the disposable, objectified husbands this book portrays, this is absolutely hysterical.

Because isn't that the biggest sin of all for a woman? Not to be of use?

Happiness is so hard to come by. I don't understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.

Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere