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I am so intimidated by the size of this book, sometimes more is not more 🙈

"Why are you shooting your own people?"

The rifle fired two more rounds and Antonio heard two more bodies drop. "My own people?" The man asked, sounding incredulous. "My good man, Texans are pigs who've been taught to stand upright and ride a horse. I'm English."

Oh this book is flipping marvelous

"Mel had already set off, pulled by one of her invisible strings, one end tied round her heart, the other round every bad decision she'll ever make."

I am so hooked on this, it sizzles with the undercurrent of any good tragedy: the promise of a devastating pay off

And if it doesn't pay off I'm gonna SCREAM

Turns out H.G Parry has the same fixation on Jacques-Louis David's "The Death of Marat" as I do

oooooooOOOOOOO

We are sooooo back

Right up my avenue baby

Devourable

This book is electric and it's scratching my brain brrrrrrr

My moody dark academia autumn era continues

Weird I like it

(Btw my cover is much prettier than this one)

"You might think I would be casual about death, having seen so much of it. But the opposite is true - I know death too well to treat it carelessly. I deal in it. I've hauled the dead from the decks and heaved pails of water to wash away their blood. I know the right measure to weigh a body to send it down for good. I know the exact weight of a man's life."

""Fond," she says, and I am glad to hear her speak so scornfully. 'Fond' is such a soft word for a thing that is not soft. A small word, for a thing that is not small."

Oh I'm so in love with this

"And I do not know if she is crying for me, or for my brother who is already gone, or for both of us, since I am more him than I am myself.

And when I cry, who am I crying for? And who is crying?"

HOOOOOOOOO THIS KINDA LYRICISM IS RIGHT UP MY STREET INNIT

I actually have no idea how this book is going to end I am at RR's whim; she has me wrapped around her little finger!!!!

The cure for sleeplessness is not, in fact, a very exciting book that you can't put down

Guys my heart is beating like CRAZY

Obsessed by how everyone is absolutely the worst versions of themselves, how enthralling

We are so back

I know how this book ends and I still keep hoping it won't rip my heart from my chest. I am DELUSIONAL

I cannot put this down, I am overwhelmingly enamoured by every single sentence

Rereading with a physical copy this time because I HAVE to physically pore over the language in this book !!!!! Kaliane Bradley the WORDSMITH you are

This book would be completely incomprehensible if I wasn't such a nerd

it's a good job this book didn't come out when I was 16 because I'd have been INSUFFERABLE

It begins

Oh this book is WEIRD I am so excited

This is a work of comedic genius