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there’s no plot or substantially rising horror I’m BORED!!
Will finish bc it’s for a book club.

Very introspective. Ocean metaphor and language is very compelling, but if it doesn’t start to go somewhere soon it’s going to fall flat

I like the concept of this book and its early world building a lot but the patient-verbally sarcastic-tall guy meets short-physically aggressive-repressed girl trope for enemies to lovers is OLD.. the MC here keeps acting embarrassing as hell

The writing / plot is starting to slip in quality towards the end here 🫤

Doomed toxic period piece yuri

Welp, it happened 🫩 they got him 🫩

I’m stressing TF out because I know how this book ends but I don’t remember how exactly it happens this is so nerve wracking

I feel like the only reason I’m enjoying this is bc it’s sapphic bc otherwise I would think it’s WAAAAAY too similar to Jayne eyre. Also, random gripe, but the author should be using UK spelling if we’re in England.

This book is quite confusing in that it has the world building, plot tropes, and hero-squad vibe of a children’s novel, but then occasional adult elements that make you forget no, this is actually YA?? But the characters are in their late 20s?

Going to force myself to finish since I’m almost done, and possibly the first Goodreads reviewer of this book, which feels like a Guinness record.

I’m going to need this to pick up the pace or emotional stakes QUICKLY

This might be a DNF for me. There’s a lot that doesn’t make sense: the MC’s decisions on money and her day to day actions, the orphan aspect that is only referenced and so feels less impactful, and why (as a non-Canadian) the Canadian intelligence agency is absolutely evil in this book. This book also overstates the obvious at times instead of letting metaphors speak for themselves.

The narrator is a bit unlikable I fear