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obviously it will be important in the future, but i really don't get why we get the chapters about lena. they're well written (as the entire book is!) but i get bored when i reach them because i'd rather focus on the other characters.

i do understand the narrative value of valerie's letters to her mother and they are indeed interesting and beautiful, but i just think that, considering that her last letter implied that she is running away from a man, wouldn't it be smarter to write one letter saying, "hey, this person was the cause of this! he did this and that!"?
like girl, leave it somewhere so he'll be punished even if you die!!

so far so good! the audiobook specifically is very nice!

i know about the whole "just because my dreams are different than yours doesn't mean they're unimportant" discourse, but if a woman told me her dream growing up was to get married... i will judge you. sorry, but not that sorry.

you're telling me that when you were a little girl, when we all dreamed about being princesses or rockstars or doctors or ballerinas or anything in the world, you dreamed of being a... wife?

the idea of an observational comedian helping to solve crimes does indeed sound like a tv show, and one i'd LOVE to watch

the thing about john scalzi is that, no matter how weird or unusual the world setting or book premise might me, he can always create characters that really feel like real people!

theory: duane, either with her consent, or thinking that the supplements she took were responsible for her good performance, took kim's supplements and died. i think whatever it was there that killed duane, was actually meant to kill kim — it makes sense, considering she was a star player and he wasn't.

scrooge is actually quite funny (i loved the scene with him telling his nephew good afternoon! time and time again because he wanted him to leave lol) and i've been enjoying the narrator as well! i think this is a great book to get me in the christmas spirit.

tom is fine — i mean, a little annoying but nothing too much — but phil is so annoying all the time?? he always gets riled up over NOTHING and like, he still hasn't properly apologized to tom? i wouldn't want to be close to him in any way, not even to help someone.

not really liking how there's no grovel from phil's part... like tom have some respect for yourself and guilt-trip this man to oblivion? please?

both characters are really annoying and i don't see yet why i should be rooting for them as a couple...

hannah and sturgess!!!! let's go!!! i love them omg 😭

i'm liking it so far, with the exception of ethan. i don't understand the appeal of a nonchalant man, i'm sorry... for me this guy is just boring and someone fun like amber deserves someone more like her.

wondering if the killer is mina, but then she'd have like, a long connection to poppy and is planning this for a loooong time. but i hope it isn't her, poppy deserves some real friends 3

really liking it so far!! i love how poppy is smart but not condescending or mean, loving her friendship with mina and excited for more of her and isiah!!

the dialogues are so clonky and i hate nathan's chapters. the story is already moving at turtle-speed, and it gets even slower once i have to read about him— and it nevers adds to anything!

this book is weirdly so hard to find?

anyway, i don't think i'm going to like it very much, but i need to get my feedback ratio better on netgalley. i thought i'd like it more by the synopsis, but the writing is definitely not up my alley, and the characters don't act their age, which is my biggest ick on books.

the mystery isn't moving as fast as i would like, but i still love these characters. though, again complaining about this, i want more scenes of all of them together!!