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IT IS TIME.

MY LIBBY HOLD FINALLY CAME IN AND MY BODY IS READY, LET'S GO BITCHES

I think it’s the character vibe and the singing but I keep picturing Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember 😂💀

Damn this book is a good time.

I’m not really into the mask thing or the stalker thing BUT I will say I was intrigued by the idea of wondering how tf an author could pull off making a stalker romance palatable and I’m impressed with the obvious “yeah, don’t worry she’s into it” lengths she established right up front.

I’m only just now realizing that I think my whole life I’ve consistently mixed up Gertrude Stein and Dorothy Parker…

This is interesting but I don’t need quite this much detail about the journalist and would like significantly more about the serial killer, lol

“Second guess?” She starts humming the Jeopardy! theme song. “I don’t know, dishwasher?” “Benny.” “What? I couldn’t think. You were making smart-people music at me.”

My favorite thing is that in the audio this was changed to “making countdown noises” presumably bc the actual think music is copyrighted.

“Get ready for the splash zone,” he choked, making her laugh again. “You won’t hurt my feelings if you duck and cover.”

TWICE IN ONE PAGE AND SOMEHOW IT GOT WORSE

“I swear I’ve been able to smell you through the wall for the past forty minutes and . . . Well, let’s just say you’re back in the splash zone.”

Gagging with laughter this is the least sexy thing I’ve ever read 😂💀

Somnophilia is not my jam but I really love and appreciate their explicit consent conversation about it ❤️

Girl I know you’re all virginal and personally inexperienced but we established you learned about sex by WATCHING PORN…do not tell me you don’t understand brat/daddy dynamics and what he’s doing here, come the fuck on.

- We’re 40% in and I feel like she’s bonding more with the pseudo-butler than the MMC…like have they had one real conversation?

- I’m really fine with age gap relationships in general, but this 21 year old is like I’VE NEVER HEARD OF MUSIC OR EATEN DESSERT which like, i get the situation she’s been in, but if you’re gonna have an age gap, you can’t jnfantilize the younger one THAAAAAAAAAT much.

BACK TO CAMBRIC CREEK WE GO I’M SO HYPE

This is REALLY compellingly/interestingly written for a subject that has the potential to be pretty dry.

I am loving this book so so so so so so so so so so so much it’s insane. I’m only just barely halfway through and already I want to start it all over again just so I’m on a constant loop of reading this book I’m obsessed.

Is this shameless fan service? Yes. But am I Fan, so this book is entirely working for me? Also yes.

I dunno if I’m gonna stick with this one…it feels like there are 80,000 characters and the writing keeps being like “it’s 2008. Flo Rida’s Low is on. Now Christina Aguilera is on. Now Amy Winehouse is on. It’s 2008.”

“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