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trinidad and tobago mentioned??!?!

“i’ve spent the entire night shift feeling like water is gushing into the hull of my boat and the only thing on hand to bail it out with is a Sylvanian Family rabbit’s contact lens.”

the fact that i have shit to do and cant spend the next 4 hours reading this in one sitting is greatly upsetting to me

“she’s a nice girl, but she’s got the IQ of an artichoke” brutal

too many immoral white men in this cast of main characters

is this book weird on purpose. i think it’s weird on purpose. still weird tho

“sometimes i think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom…men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. women get consumed. not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman’s body experiences.”

everything about adora and amma - their dialogue, demeanors, actions - makes me so uncomfortable. gillian flynn did a perfect job at writing a manipulative, narcissistic mother and a degrading, unstable teenager. their dynamics with each other and with camille as well as camille herself, a result of her mother’s contempt, adds so much to the psychological aspect of the story.

i can barely express how much i love these tense and sinister vibes. i just adore an uncanny small town setting. a main character whose layers of mental illness and trauma are slowly revealed and dissected. a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship. an unsettling teenage girl. a murder mystery and a killer on the loose.

reread :)