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I need to have a word with the editor about those appendices, they're driving me crazy.

I was going to read the entire thing today but I’m getting sleepy. Not much left though.

T. Kingfisher is just really good at what she’s does. I’m devouring this book. It’s simple in the best possible way.

This is my second T. Kingfisher book, and I don’t know if this is an encompassing characteristic of her work or if I’ve just been lucky with these two, but her male protagonists are so polite. It’s such a breath of fresh air.

What I genuinely don’t understand about how this book was edited is the appendices. They’re just regular journal entries that the editor decided to cut from the main text and insert back at the end. I should not have to jump from page 235 to page 552 for no discernible reason.

This cannot possibly have a happy ending, and I think I’d be disappointed if it did.

I tried, I really tried, but apart from the setting there’s nothing to like about this book.

Liking this so far, but I’m waiting for the central plot to arrive.

I thought the final chapters would just be a sort of epilogue, but no, there are still things happening!

Suddenly worried this might not have a happy ending.

How many different times can two people kiss before they finally admit they’re a couple? Because so far it’s like seven.

“I came to see my psychiatrist.”

I stand corrected.

There’s actually a really interesting issue of mental health and trauma brought to light in this book, but because it’s Chinese I’m genuinely afraid the solution will be love and not extensive therapy.

How can two characters be so honest and yet so bad at communicating omg

Communicating about boundaries! Yay!

It only took like 800 pages to get there.

These people will be living the most inane and boring rich lives possible, and then Anderson Cooper drops a “They celebrated with a cannibalism-themed party.”

The chapter on the Astor Hotel and New York queer history is really interesting.

I’m only listening to this as a way to learn something while I’m doing chores; otherwise my interest is very mild. This is written in the same format as the authors’ previous book Vanderbilt, but I’m feeling more bored by this one.

The story is interesting but the chapters are unnecessarily bloated with useless details. I don’t need to know what the characters are eating for every single meal.

Finishing this one out of intellectual obligation, but emotionally I am quite over it.

The whiplash of going from Nami’s story where she’s annoyed that her high heels are poor quality to Robin’s story where she’s reminiscing about the genocide of her homeland…

Nami’s story is pointless.
Perona’s story is cute.
I have Robin and Vivi left.

Something’s not working.