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if Phoebe and Gary don’t ditch the wedding and escape within the solitary walls of that little ‘winter keeper’ estate, i’m going to lose my marbles.

i’m admitting that: yes even through i just read about Gary having his beared shaven and transforming him into the clean-cut groom; i did in fact imagine him without a beard since the moment he was introduced.

‘wife and husband’ was such an emotional story, that was so sweet.

this book is so adorable. 🥹

there is an unconventional but poignant relationship developing between Phoebe and Juice. 🥹

“…she feels equally beautiful. More beautiful. She is alive. Enchanted. I have fingers, she thinks, and brings them to the surface of the water. Look at these magical f***ing fingers.”

i have never once been married, been in a serious relationship, suffered a pre-mid-life crisis, but this novel is making me feel like i have experienced a lot more emotions and feelings beyond just 17 years.
this book is astonishing.

i’m officially in love with this book, Phoebe has won me over with her sway and irrevocably realist view of life.

this unreliable narrator form is as interesting as it is frustrating.

i’m in love with the writing-style of this book.

is she a siren? don’t tell me! i love prefiguring the plot.

i absolutely adore this writing.

okay… there is no way Tim is actually guilt; i do not trust it.

please can Tim Reese be innocent, i actually really like him. 😭

“that’s the only part of himself he wants to protect, the part that exists inside her.”

“it was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to educate people on false emotional issues, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
miss rooney, i am speechless.

this writing is beautiful, wow.

i feel… speechless?

not even 50 pages in… this is a very raw description of love. 🥺

can Bee literally not detect Levi’s absolute yearning for her? this man is so obviously obsessed with her, and she cannot see it. 😭

LEVI. WARD. 🥹 i think i know who Schmac is…

Levi Ward… i think i have an obsession with smart men… 😚

i’m a bit… confused.

i absolutely adore Elizabeth—this woman has some serious love for murder mysteries.

this is feeling very much like there’s a team ‘Gabe’ or ‘Adam.’

i like Luke… i don’t like - or trust - Ethan.

this is giving ‘the great gatsby’ vibes, and i’m here for it.

Stephanie Garber never fails to impress me - the second person narration is impeccable

oh my godddddd. this man is something else. 🫦

okay… the way i feel about Hayden is wildly inappropriate. 🤭