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wtf this is one of the kindest books I’ve ever read 😭 almost cried in the eye doctor’s office earlier these characters are so loving to each other, unless things change majorly this is gonna be my first 5/5 in a while

Started off a bit iffy on the novel’s prose but I’m actually really getting into this!

Genuinely can’t put this down. Chuck really tingled with this one holy shit

“She’d stopped making those erotic cheese and blanket noises and was, instead, staring daggers.”

Yeah im intrigued

Having to take a pause because my Libby rental is up. Starting off nicely though — really excited to see where it goes!

ITS FINALLY OFF HOLD LETS GOOOO im really excited for this one

Boy who thinks they’re having a cutesy “run to each other in the field” moment vs. Girl who’s about to tackle tf outta him because he’s gonna get the whole town blown up if he doesn’t stop moving might be my new favorite romance trope

Also Iris is the most valid, wonderful book protagonist ever and if [character who’s fate is currently unknown] isn’t okay i WILL have to intervene

“Anyway,” she said cheerfully, “he is dead — I do not have to look at him any more. I do not like to look at things that are ugly.”

Love how there’s like half a chapter of this book devoted almost entirely to señora de caspearo roasting the hell out of a guy who’s been murdered

“Murder is stupid.” -Miss Marple, “A Caribbean Mystery” (p. 139)

could alternatively be titled “agatha christie’s mysterious and problematic obsession with racial slurs”

Agatha Christie’s so funny bc sometimes she’ll be all mysterious and keep you constantly guessing and then sometimes she literally tells you in the title of a chapter that she’s about to kill someone

I love how heavy this book is on Miss Marple’s internal monologue because she’s really reading everybody at this resort for FILTH in the most polite way possible and it’s the funniest thing ever. Where was she in mean girls

I love how Miss Marple’s entire deal is “yeah i’m AMAZING at solving murders because everyone thinks I’m a silly little old lady heheheohooho” and it really works! said little old lady really is getting people thrown in the slammer 24/7

love how donna tartt’s like “oooooOOOOOooo by hating these characters are you complicit in the DEATHS that are going to TAKE PLACE? :0” like yes donna thank you for asking, I am complicit :) I want all of these characters to explode. to death. francis gets a pass bc I started reading this during pride month and judy poovey gets a pass bc she’s iconic. these people are like the new yorkers who tailgate me 24/7

This book is… incredible. I desperately want to read the rest of it, and I just as desperately want to put it down afterwards and never look at it again.