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Please let me be wrong about this Chekov's gun, please let me be wrong about this Chekov's gun

Very Bunny in the collective consciousness aspect as well

This is soooo Virgin Suicides meets Sharp Objects

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

Physically cringing and can barely continuing reading because I feel soooo bad for Sayuri rn...

Future me, is this 1938s version of Saw?

This book is more brutal than Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Mona Awad is a sick, twisted, and powerful woman. Bracing myself for impact on this one.

Oh my god, is this fucking play about us??

Narrator be like: My dead wife isn't like other girls and my only friend is a leather jacket

I already dislike the narrator.

This author has FOR SURE never met a kindergartener

I don't love how comically evil the antagonists are. It's also laughably dramatic, which really takes me out of an otherwise good story.

Choosing to read this even tho I know it will be bad

Andrew Neiderman needs put into an obliteration machine for crimes against literature.

I guess I'm just the friend who's too woke because I can't get over the way women are treated/depicted in this novel.

To this day, the opening scene of this book is one of the most striking and memorable I have ever read.

I love this series! If you're going to read it, stick to the original 4: Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday.

You can have a little Garden of Shadows as a treat, but the rest are a male ghost writer who don't quite capture the VCA essence.

I am about to begin a task so arduous...

I've read the main 5 of this series a million times, and they're FANTASTIC. I will now read the entire 11 book collection, in chronological order, as opposed to order of release date.

Even though I have heard the prequels and adjacent novels are not good LOL

"Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined."

"And because I am your son, I said, "Sorry." Because I am your son, my apology had become, by then, an extension of myself. It was my Hello."

"To love something, then, is to name it after something so worthless it might be left untouched. And alive."

"When can I say your name and have it mean only your name, not what you left behind?"

Either a strong 2 star or weak 3 star LOL the writing was so unappealing to me and the plot was not particularly attention holding. But there was a lot of feminist themes and viewpoints that strongly stood out as favorable. And so many lesbians.