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I think I get it 👌✨🔥

OK DAMN this will be a HOOT once I have time to read, will probably get through the whole thing in very few sittings, the style of the prose really grips me in the best way possible!

I'm deeply enjoying the style this is written in, academia laced with a late night chat with friends on the couch.

CHESNEY IS SUCH A LITTLE SHIT (pun fully intended)

DAMN, that was such a strong opener. So much food for thought.

I'm glad the book didn't go into detail about the corpse in the barrel... Yikes.

I really did NOT want to stop reading but it's fucking 1:40am. Damn.

Why do I have to go to sleep right as things are starting to get really interesting again. Damn.

I think the last 60 pages have been a bit slow, but the build up of dread and shifting character dynamics are really great. I still can't picture anyone's faces or body builds though bc the initial descriptions were too many and too quickly and I retained none of them rippp guess I'll have to go back and find them 😩

Really love the fact that in the early 1800s it was men, and specifically dandies, who were after a wasp waistline. NOT women. Amazing.

jfc can we STOP with the ridiculous infantilising. a 17yo YOUNG GENTLEMAN would NOT think of himself as a "boy". also the fucking?? molly house situation???? this is the least of this book's crimes so far btw.

This book is so poorly written and the trans rep is so irritating it took me about five chapters to stop gritting my teeth while reading. jfc. It does pick up a bit around chapter 10 but at what cost. WHY ARE ALL THESE MEN CALLED BOYS WHY ARE YOU INFANTILISING HALF THE CHARACTERS this is painful to read.

My vibe check from chapter one turned out to be accurate. JOY.