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“an imminently sensible place” everyone watch out it’s becoming sensible! oh you meant EMINENTLY

it bores the shit out of me having to read the same scene from two different perspectives

unfortunately I’m bored

14 pages in and we already have a glaring misused apostrophe (‘s after a last name is POSSESSIVE not plural dang it) and a comma where it has no right being, hmmmm

goodreads just emailed me alerting me that this book is now available. joke’s on them, I’m 225 pages in already

uhhh do we have to use sexual assault as a plot device

if I have to read that he smells like smoke and pine one more time i’m gonna commit arson and make it ACTUALLY smell like smoke

big fan of how nothing has happened in like 80 pages

I need a phone book to keep track of all these characters jesus

are blood vessels visible to the naked eye or how does he know they exist without a microscope

who tf casually knows multiple soap recipes

all this infodumping holy shit

some people can SMELL ANTS???

fuck yeah this is terrifying

am I making things up or does the phrase “somewhat of” not exist

why does everyone think you need to put a comma after “of course?”

I loved the other two books I’ve read by this author and I have to assume her editor was on maternity leave or otherwise indisposed for this one. two typos in one paragraph

okay so the new update to establish a DNF shelf has removed ALL of my notes about why and at what point I DNFed those books…🙃

I certainly wasn’t this dumb when I was 21. I don’t even think I was this dumb when I was 14

“by who” does not exist! it’s by WHOM! WHOM!!!!

i’m bored :/

I feel like theoretically this should be interesting but it’s actually kind of boring

look i like this MMC but he didn’t lay a single finger on the FMC’s clit, there was no foreplay besides making out, he went to no effort to get her off and she just magically came because he’s got a bump next to his dick like bro you are not a team player

sorry does this author actually think ICE agents do good things like taking down human trafficking operations? bro ICE literally imprisons children

i don’t like *playing* video games so i’m not really sure how i feel about *reading* a video game lol

the only time something happens in this book is when she kills off a character 😭

another “near-native-level french speaker reading books written by non-french speakers that involve french” gripe: why does cole keep switching between the formal (vous) and informal (tu) forms of address with his best friend lol

is “that doesn’t mean I’m Bloody Stupid Johnson” a Discworld reference PLEASE SAY YES

if your book is gonna be set in france you probably want to double check your conjugation when your characters speak french 😭 should be « je regarde son visage » not « je regards »

“he wasn’t handsome by any means. but he was undeniably beautiful ― mesmerizing, the way a coiled serpent might be” lisette marshall i love you but honestly SPARE ME