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Nope. Gave me the ick.

Wow everyone SUCKS! Who invited these people! I’m reading through my fingers this is all so embarrassing for everyone involved.

Similar to Devil Wears Prada, in her quest to avoid stereotypes, Weisberger does a full 180 and smashes a random hodge-podge of ethnicities/sexualities/personalities together into people that have no consistency whatsoever. So far, at least. It’s a little difficult to follow.

It is, unfortunately, so slow. I don’t want to DNF but I have so many other things to read and I don’t know that this is worth my time 😔 bummer because Hail Mary was so good. Idk. I’ll think about it.

Oh is he hot? Oh is he? I couldn’t tell, maybe you should explain it to us again.

I don’t know if I’m going to make it through this one.

I don’t want it to end 😭 definitely in my top 10 books. This better have a satisfying resolution in one way or another. And they BETTER NOT mess up this movie

Incredible, amazing, the best.

This is so Gilmore Girls coded and I can’t put it down. So weird, so silly. Much second-hand embarrassment. Many laughs. I’m enjoying it so far.

Did not realize it is almost 700 pages long!

This author (whalefall guy) is just incredible

Am I reading this all in one day? Maybe… pro tip: don’t read this book if you can’t handle second-hand embarrassment 🫣😂

This is SO GOOD! Would recommend

Are you considering reading this book? GREAT! Take all of your expectations and throw them violently down a garbage disposal and then maybe reconsider 🤠 I am this 🤏🏼 close to it being a DNF. Only reason I’m staying is for scares (there are none so far because everything is SO PREDICTABLE). Help me. I hate it here.

It’s taking everything in me not to give up on this book (I need to see what happens but I can assume it’ll be VERY PREDICTABLE JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE). I’ve taken to writing sarcastic comments on every page. I will persevere but maybe also send help.

Main character is said to be 38. Main character has the maturity of a 12 year old. The concept is intriguing but it’s written very poorly.

IT’S SO WEIRD. Begins in second person but like in a good way??? Obscure and I’m here for it. For now, at least.

Gettin spooky

You know how you’re not supposed to name characters anything that sounds too similar because it’s confusing to read? Well tell that to

-Charlie and Carlton
-Jason and John

And *objectively* the worst ever:
-Marla and Lamar

The book is satisfactorily creepy, but looks like they’re introducing a romance and I am not here for that.

Doesn’t seem consistent with the game timeline (?) confused.

Horrifyingly good. Can’t put it down. WANT to put it down. Can’t.

FLYING through this one. So good!!!

Getting better now that new characters aren’t being introduced

I think what’s bothering me the most is that there’s a physical description for every woman involved. I might care that Grace is interested in politics or that Helen matched her lipstick to her nails every day—things that help build their CHARACTERS, but when you’re giving me 15 women’s names at once, I can’t possibly keep track of which ones are blonde or short or pretty or overweight.

The writing style is just not it for me so far…hoping it pulls itself together. It’s a strange kind of historical nonfiction smashed together with “and also we made it a 3rd person YA novel” and those two don’t really blend together well in my opinion BUT I am only a few pages in

I’ve been reading all night and cannot put it down!

This is the FUNNIEST THING EVER