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“Ta da!” really got me 🤣💀

Dropping everything else on my tbr to immediately read the rest of the ruinous love trilogy brb

There’s a chance my brain is genuinely broken at this point, because I’d heard all about How Ice Cream Gets Ruined and assumed it was something kinky the main couple did and that’s why it was all over BookTok as being cRaZy, but then I was like “oh it’s just a one off scene example of a psychopath serial killer doing weird serial killer shit…ok 🤷‍♀️ they be doin that sometimes.” Am I ok?

I don’t trust August. I feel like maybe he hurt Edie. Hmmm.

“The wedding was booked and there is no refund for pulling out but, at this very moment while I stare at my handsome face in the mirror, dressed to the nines and ready to walk down the isle in just a few hours, I have no idea how we’re going to pay for any of this.”

This sentence is terrible on at least 3 different levels I can count, I’m already in.

“I consider whether I could let thousands of species go extinct in order to save the lives of my three children…the answer is easy, and I don’t think they should have sent a man out here who has kids. That man would never make the choice they want him to.”

lol I literally JUST finished “a guardian and a thief” yesterday, am I subconsciously Going Through Something w my book picks this month?

“It makes me jump, and Loch, wrapped around me, turns to marble.”


Hahahahahaha AH when I first read this I thought he literally turned to marble like something magic had gone wrong Medusa style 💀

For you, Sara!

“You’ve always hated me. Why?” His eyes harden into flint. “Because,” he says, “everyone else loves you.”

I do feel like Keith is just TOO mustache twirling villainy. Like I don’t doubt a boss would really hate a female employee this misogynistically. I just doubt he’d (a) be self-aware enough to identify this as the reason and (b) be quite as I AM PREJUDICED AGAINST YOU explicit in the workplace.

“So you’re not a saint. You like ripping the hearts out of xenophobes and chaining your staff to the creepy cage you keep in your office. But you’re not evil.”

This line really got me 😂😂😂 literal lol

Ew I don’t like that he keeps calling her a “female.”

“I look at Delilah’s smiling face. Flushed cheeks. Red lips. She’s looking at me like she believes I can do this, and it makes me think that maybe I can. Maybe I can flatten the curled-up edges of myself. Maybe old wounds don’t have to hurt so bad. Maybe I can move past them into something new, better, different.”

“Storms typically develop out of low-pressure systems. In a low-pressure system, air from higher-pressure areas moves down toward the low, and as air rises and cools, any moisture in it condenses, forming clouds. The greater the difference in pressures, often, you know, the bigger the storms.”

I was actually interested to learn about this, WEATHERFACTS! lol

“I am this way because of you, I want to snap. I want to twist my words like knives until they hurt. You made me this way. Utterly reliant on systems and routines and habits so I can fucking breathe.”

It surprises me knowing that Jackson and Delilah are going to be End Game, bc given his trauma and family history I’d think he’d run very far from Pixie Sunshine Girl. I’m interested to see how it unfolds.

Do people actually say things like “you don’t want them to end up like you, do you” during presumably-friendly conversations TO people’s faces? Like there’s no way that’s not horrible right, how does your brain rationalize saying that and then being like tee hee friendly convo!

Oh, I was sure for sure for sure that Dottie was dead, whoops 😂

Girl you are sucking so bad at doing your job soon you won’t have ANY money to buy a house with

Curt and his dad were on good terms as recently as the spring of 2018, and maybe later.

They no longer seem to be speaking.

The messages from Ellipsis and nobody.noone are from January 2019.

Dottie Ross, one of Curt’s favorite students, disappeared in March 2019.

Ok so my guess is either Curt murdered Dottie or Curt’s Dad had some kind of thing with Dottie and then murdered her. And her partying was a trauma response at some point.

I am very torn bc I am very invested in finding out what Curt did but also I don’t want Margo to succeed bc she’s the worst 😂

At this point I’m just really frustrated with Margo trying to plow ahead with an anonymous offer. She had to realize it’s gonna be the same as it ever was; others will come in with more or the same in all cash. She. Won’t. Get. This. House. It’s annoying that she’s like…not internalizing that? It’s not in your budget girl

Ahhhhhh I am cringing with secondhand embarrassment at Margo trying to convince them to sell to her when they’re clearly like…yea but no we can get more than that…

“He makes a show of bringing out the main event - a roasted salmon, which, frankly, just about anyone with an oven timer could
pull off.”

Ugh Margo is…soooo judgy and unlikeable.

Honestly their relationship is WAY too toxic for not even having kids yet. You’re not tethered! Get out! This is not a healthy dynamic!

"It had been 3 months, and if Ben remembered me, if he missed me, then he would've found me. He knew how."

OK...I think this is my ONE "miscommunication trope" style issue w/ this book. Bc Florence, YOU know that him coming to you as a ghost while he was comatose is real. But isn't it MUCH MORE REASONABLE that he thought it was a coma dream? Onus is on you to subtly try to feel out if he remembers/how he feels!

LOL I feel dumb that I didn't clock that Rose OR Alice were gay.

I hate the “didn’t have X on my bingo card” cliche and I think this book has had it twice now

“And for me to read this letter - because he knew I would try to do these impossible tasks alone.
Carver covered up a laugh, and Alice elbowed him in the side. He hoped I asked for help because asking was not a weakness - but a strength. He hoped that I would ask more often, because I would be surprised by who would come into my life if I let them. Not all of my companions would be ghosts.”

What were you writing to attract Annie’s attention…

“Had to be something off the cuff. Alien barbarian erotica?”
"No, but I'd read that."
"Omegaverse?"

Hahahaha. Now I know Ashley’s read the same unhinged shit as me. Yeah girl love this journey for us.