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I was not a fan during the first few chapters, but the story is really starting to grow on me.

I've really tried to get her some credit for being young and insecure, but this main character is a wretched human and altogether insufferable.

I have no idea what's going on here haha

WAIT AND THEN WE JUST FADED TO BLACK THE ENTIRE END OF THE STORY???????? WE SKIPPED THE CLIMAX ENTIRELY? AND JUST WOKE UP IN A HOSPITAL?!?!?!?!?!?!?

"Where was she when it happened?" LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL everyone in this book is so stupid

and what awful, fatphobic commentary to top it all off with!

Just crawling to the finish line. Rachel is so insufferable, I can't take it. Her elaborate without-cause fantasies she's concocted about Ali this entire book are finally starting to crumble, but like.....I am so sorry but a reader would have to be an **idiot** to have not seen this coming for hundreds of pages. With each revelation I find myself just... "Well, yeah."

Here I am again, hoping things change at some point, but really so far all I can say about the themes of this book so far are Internalized Misogyny x Confirmation Bias. And still.....NOTHING HAS HAPPENED.

I'm sorry, but this main character is insufferable. She's guilty, and projecting her mess all over everyone else. I don't know how much more I can take of her wringing her hands over unfounded suspicions and casting unfair judgements over everyone else for another how many hundred pages.

It's just all......jealous, snarky, judgmental, insecure women back and forth and back and forth.

My takes so far: It's moving slowly for something marketed as a mystery/thriller. I'm nearly 30% through and we haven't established a true conflict yet. It's reading more soap opera-y than anything else, just really domestic-y and gossip-y, where no one ever just says what they're feeling.

I think my likely takeaway from this book is going to be is that so much great storytelling and character development is wasted on such a silly, goofy, unscary plot.

I can feel us encroaching into tragic levels only before seen in Flowers for Algernon.....if Algernon was blood soaked and on the rampage for mouse-flesh.

I can't put this down.

Maybe my most anticipated book of the year so far. The Subtance meets The Troop meets Thinner? I'm already there.

I'm sorry but who lets their 8 year old be outside by herself, riding a bike on the neighborhood street, alone, with no supervision? In what, presumably is 2025? We aren't talking playing with other kids in a group, or in a fenced in yard. This kid was alone for as long as it took you to have sex with your husband upstairs in your house? I'm no hover-parent but that pisses me off. Am I overreacting here?

I haven't really sussed out where we're going with this daughter storyline but I'm actually worried it's going to be very triggering for me.

TO BE CONTINUED I GUESS!!

I've got to say, I'm pleased that I have no idea really what's happening yet. But I'm sat and ready to see how things untangle.

I can't take much more of this

I'm so fucking confused why Grace feels entitled to know who Calvin slept with before he even knew her. Girl, you've known him for one week

I think this is also what I am struggling with: we spend so much time being told how much Calvin is obsessed with Grace, but we never feel it. It's classic show vs tell. Just hearing "I'm obsessed with Grace!!" doesnt make me feel obsessed. I don't buy it.

And I am really getting sick of this catty stereotypical mean girl in-fighting behavior. One or two sly remarks is one thing but now, it is every word out of this girl's mouth. People do not talk like this. It's like we're in a poorly written teen drama.

Also is it not weird that an Airbnb host would make his space open for a guest the same weekend he was hosting a big party? On that same note I have Airbnb'd sooooo many times and I would rather eat glass than interact with the property owner- this whole dynamic is so weird to meeee.