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I'm trying to go easy on the knee jerk reactions to tired tropes like a hooker with a heart of gold... but I love how he weaves his crime web

Finally a sci fi book I am loving from the jump!

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and you set up a life again, safeguarded this time, put into a special box—your homeland reaches out a cruel hand and injures you again, even here, even in your haven, because what people don’t mention about exile is the

Exile is an abusive relationship, and even when you leave—when you pack up your duffel bag, and take off into the long, long sea hoping to resurface in some shining world without pain, and instead end up in a place with its own harms and passions and joys and tortures (that is everywhere), hostages it creates

Great so far but the author is making the main character out to be a total germaphobe and neat freak so why in the hell would she get a job as a crime scene cleaner

Gah this goddamn Dutch book why why why

I'm fine with the trend of not using quotation marks in novels, in fact I prefer it, but the way this author and I think the book Angel Down start every paragraph and nearly every sentence with "And" is grating on me a bit. I am still enjoying the book so far

I'm whipping through this sucker so fast that the people reading it with me in my King group are way behind me. So I'm resting for a bit. There's a creepy guy but this isn't horror, at least not yet. King certainly has some characters I'm rooting for.

I'm enjoying looking up each cathedral mentioned and of course, as with her other book I read, there's a murder mystery pulling me through

Reminding me of Out by Natsuo Kirino

Going from Katie Kitamura's Audition to this book has to be the strangest segue ever but I adore Bob the Drag Queen so welcomed it. It is of course laugh out loud funny... I mean if Harriet Tubman was going to rap, you know she'd rap, "I wish a muthafucka would!" Every picture of her looks like that is what she is thinking.

FINALLY

This book gains momentum then loses it, has amazing chapters then ones I want to hurry through.

I'm getting a kick out of the sexist matriarchal spider society

There's a chapter in this that would make a fantastic novel. I think this hasn't gotten as much attention as it should among horror fans because she's not known as a horror author. She should be.

Well this is charming and I am laughing out loud, but my brain keeps trying to compartmentalize what I am reading, to define it, which is sort of meta because that is all the main character does about everything around him.

When this book gets dark it gets dark! Im not sure how I feel about that being mixed with humor.

Initial thoughts: Duchamp's "Fountain" of books

I'm a sucker for road trip plots

wonderful surprise so far, well written and propulsive

Love it so far but ooooof bleak