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The BEST audiobook I've listened to in a while. The plot! It just keeps giving. I never know what to expect next. The characters! So relatable and imperfect and terrible and wonderful. The VOICE! someone give this narrator a raise (it's literally lady Danbury 😍)

Let's see if I can finish this audiobook before the movie comes out EEEEEK!!

I'm scared for my future mental health. I have a bad feeling about where this is going. I already love these characters far too much.

How I love Greg James!
Tirelessly joyful in the morning. Now sharing his inner thoughts without being interrupted by the latest pop hits and callers into the show.
The fact that he narrates his own audiobook shows you how much this book is is own beautiful work. I'm loving hearing his school stories and perspective on curriculums (why isn't privilege a covered subject?!) and other radio DJs as he was growing up.

this is everything I had hoped for and more

I was about to go listen to music you know when suddenly I remembered I need to be listening to AN HOUR of this book EVERY DAY if I want to finish before my library loan runs out 😭 cmon Philippa speed it along a bit

First time I've seen the word canny used and it was ... Well, really quite uncanny 😂 (sorry not sorry lol)

AHHHH why am I so much enjoying this wittily written build up to having my heart ripped out? This book is like having surgery awake, no anaesthetic. But in the same way as having surgery is necessary... I think it's necessary to read books like this lol. This is an important book.

It's still very interesting

FINALLY - young adult fiction written and tailored to YOUNG adults... Literally this is perfect writing for the audience and I love that 👏

It's still interesting

I've never seen the word squinch before but this book uses it so often... It feels both so right and also so wrong? I need to look up if it's an actual word.

What an absolute chonker of a book... 27hrs+ of audio 🤯 so far so interesting though

FINALLY JUMPING ON THIS BANDWAGON WAHEY

Finished last night. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. IT IS BEAUTIFUL. review to come.

Trying this as an audiobook and LOVING it so far. Not normally my type of book but this has me fully involved sometimes even laughing. The fact its being read to me by a black woman's voice (sorry I'll get their name by the time I actually review) is really making this a more authentic experience for me :)

Oh my life. Let's just wait for all these emotions to settle before I even think about writing a review.

But basically, know this one is a precious 10000/10 stars :)

Yeeeesh I think this one is getting a bit too scary for me

"She wondered what were other things in her life that she ignored. Sila remembered reading that poor people gave a bigger percentage of their income to charity than wealthy people. Was that because people who didn't have the money to be comfortable filling basic needs understood what that felt like? Did it make them more generous? [...] Were people more compassionate because of their own difficult experiences?"

"Did I say that?"
"Yeah."
"Oh. Well, I say a lot of things."
"That you don't mean?"
"I mean it when I say it, but I'm open to changing my mind," she answered.

" "The sweetest little girl in the world" Sila exhaled. She was once sweet. But not anymore. Now she was, she decided, strong. It wasn't how the world saw her but how she saw herself that felt important."

"My parents always say that when you go visit friends you should ring the doorbell with your elbow."
Gio looked confused, so Sila explained. "Because your hands are full - with the gifts you're bringing."

Little inconsistencies in the writing are bugging me more than I thought. I feel like a mystery needs to not have these so noitceably??? I've just read a chapter which I strongly feel like the author went back and rewrote just parts of, and now the dialogue doesn't line up. Harrrumph. Would Agatha Christie be impressed? Not sure, a bit late to ask her.

"The cat's response was very Zen."
This book does make me giggle

Gah! What am I supposed to do with my life now I've finished this book?! Review to come (spoiler, it's 5/5 stars)

"One remembers that which came before, often with a fond sadness, a want to return, despite knowing to return to a memory is to morph it, to warp it. Every time you remember something, the memory weakens, as you're remembering the last recollection, rather than the memory itself. Nothing can remain in tact. Still, it does not stop you wanting, does not stop you longing."

"What is better than believing you are headed toward love?"

"I bit into it and a choir of angels started singing." I HAVE NEVER READ SUCH AN ACCURATE NARRATION OF A FOODIE'S INNER THOUGHTS this book is making me too happy

"What mattered was not the final destination but to be on the move, searching, changing, becoming."

"And I know for a fact there's more than one kind of magic in this world."