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A book with such an interesting premise should not be so boring and underwhelming lmao

i have to be honest - is this not technically mafia romance, except the world building is so clever you nearly forget it?

all love and peace but the prose of this is EXHAUSTING

writing explicit sex scenes but typing freaking instead of fucking in the paragraph above just about sums this book up, i think

Confused how people think this book is "vibes only" when you actually have to write the ~vibes~

Should have - admittedly - started book club book earlier because reading on a crunch is ruining the experience here. Maali Almeida is such a cool character though - almost too cool, to the point of seeming Hollywood-esque.

The reset was soooo good for Broadbent because this is actually readable. (She also actually has a structure to work with which helps, as per her own previous admission)

I do not think that I have ever in my life read such abominable prose

Now, not to argue here but no Irish person could claim superiority of football over NFL bc footballers don't spend their time getting CTEs when I know more people with repeat concussions and physical trauma from playing rugby casually than any other sport.

I am at this point just waiting for this book to end

At the risk of sounding like Cpt Obvious but just the blatant bullying and institutionalised racism in this pisses me off so much, I am ready to put it down

me, eastern european: knows that not every country queues

Wish I could flunk off work so that I could go read this in the garden in the sun

OK, hold up - not this being sooo good after I had so much beef with her FOR YEARS for her Russian mythology books.

Bulgarians don't use Vanya for men, hope this helps.

They need to start blurbing Coco Mellors' books better bc thus far only one of the sisters has just about made it to their childhood home.

Much better than "Cleopatra and Frankenstein" but the characters are still so... not real people, it really takes me out of the immersion of Kit Griffiths' beautiful narration.

noooo bestie don't declare an architecture major

Suspected the plot twist as there was good groundwork there but it still almost - but not quite - makes up for how weird the romance is lmao

I am finished but I likely won't be writing the review for a while but I am genuinely sat here like, do I even want to continue this series (I got 3 books from TK Maxx for next to nothing).

Now why does reading this book feel like playing Kim K Hollywod?

I like Amsterdam well enough but the food is not "good" 😭

okay scatlett rights for being an august virgo

I love that unbridled American optimism because the credentials those people have are insane.

I love all that architectural shit (audience groans)

stoooop agnes about swimming and the swimming pool is literally me

You know it's bad when you have to start googling whether the author knows any working class people. Convinced they are either extremely online or extremely away from the average Brit.

As someone who generally disagrees with the culture around true crime (but is curious about how it transpired), there is yey a book that is meant to be "a discussion an ethics" to do anything substantial. Is it a discussion if your true crime fan is a stereotypical caricature? 🙄

Girl, this is way too long. And it isn't horror - just misogyny lmao