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I really enjoyed this! Review to come.

This book is so much fun!

This is very funny so far, which I really need after the last two books I read.

This was so sad! Review to come when I recover a bit.

So far so gripping, with that patented Jane Harper atmosphere and sense of place.

Well, blech. If I hadn't liked Jane so much, I would have DNF'd. What a really disturbing story. If this had been my first Lisa Jewell book, it would also be my last.

This is a quick read as always with Lisa Jewell, but it's also a slog. The story is just grim and dark, and the more I read, the less hopeful I am for any kind of optimistic tie-up. I'll finish the book because I love Jane's bits, but I'm not really enjoying this.

This is as impossible to put down as every other Lisa Jewell book. The connections between the characters are just starting to come clear. I can't wait to find out what it will all mean.

I could do without the flashbacks -- they seem to be trying to round out Rowan's character, but mostly they just interrupt the flow of the actual plot. I've started skimming them in case there's something important, but I'd really rather read a story that keeps moving. The "Day X" present-time story is interesting enough on its own.

This finally got interesting.

Baz was a lanky white man with graying hair that he kept trimmed with a trendy circle beard.
That beard is doing double duty if it's also trimming the guy's hair! This is the only real clunker sentence I've seen in this book so far, but it made me stop reading and laugh.

I was expecting science fiction, but this is feeling much more like literary fiction. I'll give it another fifty pages, but I'm not sure I'm in the mood for this as it is.

Ugh, the dreaded present tense/third person combination. Hopefully this will stop bugging me in a chapter or two.

This is not a book you can read quickly.

This book was published exactly 70 years ago. Reading Aunt Dot's enthusiasm for how Christianity is a faith naturally suited to progressivism and liberating women is a bit jarring (and saddening, and maddening) from my reading position in the US in 2026, where Christians are very determinedly leading the charge to deprive women of all the rights we've gained since 1956.

I forgot how many long unbroken paragraphs there are in this book. I keep having to leave off reading in the middle of one. This is pretty dated but still very interesting and mostly entertaining.

This book is sweet but too loooong.

Some pre-Halloween season reading. Definitely creepy!

I'm enjoying this more after my brief break from it.

Chapter 34
Something different or some kind of reveal better happen soon, because this book is a miserable place to be hanging out. The only character I feel anything for is Maeve. I'm sick of Natalie in the "present" and in her memories, and this is starting to feel like a slog.

Also, Natalie's continuing obsession with her old roommate Reena is making me hope that the ending of this book includes a happy ending for her.

"Do you know how cows feel when they die Nattie? Terrified.So what do you think you're eating when you eat beef?" Meaningful pause. "Terror. You're eating terror."
Huh. I could swear I remember these exact lines from Lily Esposito on the short-lived TV show Popular back in the day.

Seems like a quick read so far.

Yikes. I'm not even sure I want to read this, but I put a hold on it at the library and now it just came in, so I feel obligated to drop everything and zoom through it.

This book needs to be faster-paced. The characters are all fun to hang with, but I can't believe I'm not even halfway through yet.

I still keep losing track of whose head I'm supposed to be in, even as the other person's name keeps appearing on the page. Not sure if that's just a me problem. I like both Thea and Courtney and am enjoying their flirtations.

This is fun, but I wish Courtney and Thea's voices were more distinct. I keep forgetting whose chapter I'm in.

This pulled me right in. Somehow I managed to fall asleep just before the bearded dragon was definitely identified, though. :-D

Sometimes I wonder why I read any books that are not by T. Kingfisher. Review to come.