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I must say, it is very weird for all of you to have this conversation with the bracelet in the fekkin' room. Like... Uhm... Lock might not be answering, but what says he's not listening? This is a bit stupid. (Sorry.) 😆

Considering the fact that my mother can keep a petunia alive an entire summer while forgetting to water it ever so (very) often, I think this one will survive just fiiiiine. 😂

Oooooh-kay.... While I do want to know WHY this guy is doing this to her plants, she no doubt has my full blessing to bloody kill him already.

I really hope this isn't just a cool cover.

Has Riley Sager ever published a book with a man as the main character? I feel like I might be interested in such a book. Because I feel more and more totally fed up with his female mains.

I can usually soldier through short stories, but this one... I can't bloody stand it. 🫪😮‍💨

Not sure what it says about my patience that I keep listening to this utterly boring exchange of letters, but here I am! Still listening. 🥲😮‍💨

Fat factual error! Hedgehogs aren't rodents.

We are FINALLY going on that quest! This much "before we actually set foot outside town" content should be outlawed. Tolkien set a really bad example for following fantasy writers, in my not so humble opinion. 😂

I love everything about these books - EXCEPT the whole Anna and Steve thing. 💀💀💀

He collects fancy suits and she collects LEGOs. I love this series! 😂❤️

You know what! This is so stupid I can't take it any more. I will switch effective immediately to a book fittingly titled This Ends Now. 😤

WTF is up with this book and its high rating!? It's painfully slow and the dialogue is so banal and cringe I'm utterly confused as well as disappointed.

Holy Hell, this is boring and slow!
I'm now thinking of DNF:ing this slog.
Also possibly cry from disappointment.

Few things are as disappointing as an author of one of your favorite series branching off to write a standalone - and you just find it utterly boring. 🫪😮‍💨😭

*elbows every other book out of the way* Make room! A favourite series has a new book out!!! 🚨🚨🚨

Wow, this story moves slower than a snail stuck in molasses. 🐌💀

Everyone in this book is an idiot. Including me for continuing to listening to it. 😑

Holy hell, this book is ridiculous "wordy"... The prose isn't just purple. It's neon green, Barbie pink, and a really dull shade of beige absolutely no one on this earth with a grain of taste could possibly more than moderately like.

Well, this is awkward... I remember absolutely NOTHING from book 1 - which is extremely rare for me. 🫪

I feel like I was transported straight back to the early 2000s and into the anime and/or manga Hellsing. Ghouls and slaughter everywhere. Made me so nostalgic when someone started shooting. 😆

To be fair, that was a really lousy try at an undercover drug deal..... If someone tried that IRL, they'd be dead. 😅

And I really hate and loathe Babette. 🫪💣💀💢🔪

The author really loves the word "erstwhile".... 😆

Did someone fall and hit their head on the "cozy mystery" tag? Because this seems like a normal thriller/mystery to me. 😆

Hehehe, I called this one without seeing the leaves, folks! Plants and poisons nerd points to me! 🌱💀✨

I desperately wanted this book to be in the same tone and style as anything by Becky Chambers - and while it mostly is! It ... just isn't a Becky Chambers. 🥲

I'm getting so many "Last book!" vibes from this story, in a "painted by numbers" kind of way, it's almost sickening.
Angus King is marvellous, as usual, but it doesn't really help. 😮‍💨

This might be the 5th time the author tells the reader about how a hole for new drug dealers opened up when the old ones were taken out by the police. I got it the first time, thank you very much.

Also, this installment in the series contains only trace amounts of Max Craigie. Gawd, I really do happen when that happens.

Chapter 7 and we still haven't seen hide nor hair of Max? Seriously!? I hate when authors do this! It usually means they are losing interest in their own main character. *sigh*