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"The problem with wine was it made you emotional. The problem without wine was sobriety."

Gwen issuing a riddle challenge is the first thing that isn't ringing true in this tale. It feels like a clunky plot device that's out of character for her...





Still really enjoying the book though!!

"The problem with inviting the unnatural into your life is it might decide to stay. "

AAAAAAWWW SHIT!!!!!!! Christmas came early this year!!!!!! YahoooooooOOOOOOoooooo!!!

"I don't know what it's like for other people but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me."

The way these murders are going down is HIGHLY improbable...but, MAN, Kepler does know how to create some tension-filled, suspenseful kills!!

"There is nothing more cruel in this world than a young savage with a chip on his shoulder and anger in his soul."

"To my mother, the world was a vast quilt whose stitches were always coming undone."

Damn, this book just jumped the shark...

"I stare at the air that should be Briana's body. She has never once missed rehearsal. No matter how many I schedule. No matter the weather. She is always there, always ready, always on time, like only the truly mediocre are."




DAAAAAAAAMN!!

"My voice is a pair of hands pushing her out the door. "

"I pushed her away with the hands of my voice."

"The carny atmosphere spreads under the warm sunshine, and the trash talk grows thorns."

I have no attachment to any of these characters, which is a totally new (and very unwelcomed) feeling while reading a King book...

"This isn't the country I grew up in, it's Funhouse America now."

So.
Bored.



Each book where she is central reminds me that Holly is a character I am not fond of.



Blurg.




This best get interesting......

Can anybody tell me if this eventually gets good? Kinda not feeling this so far.....

Man, I haven't been this spooked by a book in a long time!! Seriously.

"The supermarket was in another wing of the mall, but the whole place hung dense with the feel of almost-ready food."



Ugh- I remember a mall like this from my youth 🤢

Oh no - the kid done fucked up...! 😧

"The dress clung to her like an insecure lover."

"Karma is what comes back to you for what you done. Getting what you deserve is just what finds you eventually."

"Money is like acid. It burns through everything. Friendships, family, lovers, husbands and wives. Whatever bond you think you have, money will make that shit dissolve. It's acid. Don't ever lie to yourself and think it ain't"

"We are all eaters of souls."

"Every time I believe I know one of these men or Officers, I find that I am wrong. A million years of man's medicinal progress will never reveal the secret condition and sealed compartments of the human soul."

Oh, HELLS no.

I wouldn't last two seconds in that icy hell they're trapped in....🥶

"Jane knew the truth, but she answered, "Yes."

"People often mistook personality for character."

"So he sailed along on his charm, and his fury, and he hurt people, and he found new things that interested him more, and the old things were left broken in his wake."

"The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored."


This book is cracking my shit UP!!!