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oh we’ve entered comically bad territory now… I have to laugh or else I’ll cry

Closes this book for the day and immediately gets smacked in the face with a comment thread filled with the most ableist rhetoric imaginable from r/professors. I fear this book remains evergreen…

Never underestimate how refreshing it is to read a book containing many of the tropes of your favorite YA fantasy reads but seen through the perspective of a 34 year old MC with adult problems and adult approaches to interpersonal conflicts

👁️👄👁️

I’m about to make this book my whole personality. This is what I thought A Deadly Education was going to be! It’s so good!!!

What

goodreads reviewers will be like, “this book aged like fine wine!” and then you pop it open to find that the wine was made with the grapes of racism and fatphobia… 🙄 I’m waiting until the end to do a full review obviously; the prose is stunning and the story and setting are infuriatingly compelling, so it’s frustrating how they get bogged down with some absolutely garbage stereotypes…

Should be required reading

This was written for me I fear

grab your cousin and RUN!!!!!!!

Third reread!!! Let’s gooooo

This book doesn’t need supernatural elements; this family is terrifying as hell

This is really scratching my itch for deep sea horror right now… exactly what I was seeking

I can get behind killer mermaids, but self-injecting Botox in an autonomous car, claiming you’re temporarily legally impaired after the injection, and then having the injection work instantly to quell the pain? Does my disbelief suspend so far?!

Antidepressant withdrawal representation win

A book made in a lab for those of us who were into Pacific Rim and Sherlock back in 2013 (except it’s leagues better than the latter)