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It's usually so hard for me to savour books because I read so fast, but I've been rationing myself because I don't want this to end.

A steampunk retelling of Sherlock Holmes with angels and demons, set during the Whitechapel murders? Hell yeah. I'm sold.

Opened this novel to discover that this dark academia thriller is set in Malaysia?! 🇲🇾 I'm even more excited to read it now.

Opened this book and found out that this dark academic thriller is set in Malaysia?! 🇲🇾 I'm so excited to read this.

starts out strong as a love letter to the Trans-Siberian Railway, 10/10

Can't believe I'm reading this for the first time – it's already so much more gripping than the film (and that's saying a lot – it's one of my favourites).

I want to punch Suresh in the face

This is giving The Last of Us vibes

God, is this entire book going to just drag on?!

Creepiest cult vibes!

This novel is painfully dull and just drags on. Vera is an infuriating pushover – god, if I had to deal with a dying mother like Daphne, I'd have killed her myself.

Eight. I am EIGHT PAGES INTO THIS BOOK and there have already been three instances of fatphobia, what the hell

I know this book is probably not actually about magical admins, but I would be so down to read about that.

We are FIFTEEN PAGES IN and there is a DEMON WITH ANXIETY and an INCUBUS WHO DOESN'T WANT TO LEAVE THE LIBRARY DURING CLOSING HOURS, I am obsessed

It is 20 fucking 22 can we have a book with Chinese characters that isn't somehow about the "model minority" please

This book is intriguing this far, but the narration is all over the place and it's annoying to read. Let's see if I make it past this.

I've barely started and I can already tell this is going to be a crying book.

This novel is...infuriating, to say the least. It's one of those books about the immigrant experience that feels like it's written for white people, and white people are going to read this and feel like they suddenly "get it". It's a hot mess of caricatures told in a complete word salad. We'll see if I get through it.

OKAY I'M ONLY THREE PAGES IN AND THIS PROTAGONIST IS ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED, I am so excited.

Oof, this is a huge disappointment thus far. I will probably have lots to say about this in the review, but the theory and analysis is not doing it for me thus far.

I'm only a chapter in, and this book already feels like a warm hug. I've never read a book featuring the cadence and syntax of how Malaysians speak in English, and I can hear my dad in Every. Single. Sentence.

A book about the pandemic has no business being this funny, and thank goodness for it. I'm loving this wry travelogue, a comedy of errors, thus far.

Okay, the term "this 'new situation'" is too real right now.

I'm literally only a few chapters in and I'm already obsessed. Ed the nonexistent but ontologically valid dog. Genius. Absolutely genius.

TW: Rape

Oof, this is a tough read so far. A memoir that explores the author's challenging and conflicting thoughts about her rape at the hands of one of her best friends. A honest, nuanced and important conversation about how the way survivors feel about their sexual assault is not always clear-cut.