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despite its promise of being a thrilling sci fi with searing depth and grief, it reads more like a marine-themed ya daddy issues that's trying too hard to be cool and unique...the writing is opulent at times, clunky at others, and the pace is excruciatingly slow. nevertheless i am somewhat invested in the story (i mean the guy does get swallowed by a whale) so we'll see

it takes a bit to get into the cadence of the narration - largely dry, but studded with the occasional john green one-liner that reminds you why he is an author. what i really enjoy, though, more than the plot or the writing style, is the characters. their emotions & history & dynamics. and also of course the profound reflections and general intellectual thinking. but i wish it were more consistent.

structure is mildly unpleasant but the story is pretty good, at times a tad cliche but it does generally span a lot of issues w lots of representation

ok new prediction andrew is poisoning them

(spoiler?) IM PREDICTING IT: nina is slowly poisoning her husband and maybe millie and maybe even celia too w the water bc the fridge and the mini bottles idk...(altho maybe not husband bc he drinks from the sink bc HE KNOWS)

anyways this book is kind of really bad and millie is rlly dumb like get out of there but whatever

LOL WHAT DID I TELL U
is there a sequel...

(SPOILERS!) ok so i wasn't that surprised by daniel and frannie being actors, i definitely thought daniel was fishy- everything he said was too knowledgeable, & they both had very distinct personalities. before i read any further, prediction: i feel like pete is actually some sort of bad guy & there's something weird about the airplane trip. also how did bro genuinely leave his wife behind. i don't believe his story.

aaururgrhhrh im still reading this despite me having been reading it for like 5 months but it is a good book and i do want to finish it i just haven't had timeeee but i will i will (vodka cranberry flashbacks) trust

OH HELL NAW LOLLLL
*spoilers*
prediction: pae is actually edric's discarded and hidden daughter + kitt's half sister, and kai is not edric's son at all. (im on the chapter b/w 33 and 34 - at the last edric one i thought the baby might be paedyn, but was concerned abt incest, thought it might be his mother's unfaithfullness? this definitely solves it though but what about the marriage??)

WTF this is growing more hunger games by the minute. i mean it's past the point where it's like "read this if u like the hunger games" it feels like the author directly took plot pts, setting details, etc & shoved them into this book. like...originality?? hello?? im draggingg myself thru this piece of practically plagiarism.

- "trials" where teens fight to death. in woods.
- girl has bow & arrw
- reachedcharlimitahh

aaauuioohhhh ok so its becoming increasingly apparent that this is a wannabe hunger games book with a headstrong and sarcastic girl meets mr tall dark handsome jacked and seductive (you know the type) .... i fear this is like a book you read when you want to escape the world but not because it's deep or revelatory or anything purely because it's stupid and cringey and you want to laugh at it.

SO GOOD!!! its like fantasy ofc but generic(??)* enough to be like understandable and not flood me with worldbuilding? and i still can't get over Schwab's writing style OMGGG

this is like the book i always wanted to write :((

*ok it is unique but lowkey a litttleee cliche just a tad w the devil guy but still good

i have literally only read the prologue thing but wow the way she writes is beautiful... it's like a creative writing project but not in a cringey way (mostly).

"...small white flowers tumble from her hair, littering the ground like stars. A constellation left in her wake..."