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Whoever dies is gonna gut me.

This book was so ridiculous it was like a drug-addled Fast and Furious version of a crime novel. So if you're in a mood to let the unbelievable slide...you might enjoy this. The MC makes every bad decision but in this universe...does it matter? Also, male authors' need to detail when their characters have to go to the bathroom should be studied.

I really like Xavier and Nora.

This man is doing everything wrong. He should be dead or in jail already instead of just beat up. I’d DNF but I’m as committed to the bit as he is at this point.

So much and also... nothing?

This feels weirdly hubristic and confusingly profoundly confusing. Where are we going and why are we taking so long to get there?

I spoiled one plot point for myself by accident but I just got to another one that had me flaily-armed in distressed surprise. Darren! No!

Dude should quit but I get why he isn't. Need can drive you to stuff down your discomfort and better notions.

Somehow I've read (and listened to) nearly 1000 pages of this story and I still feel like I'm missing something.

This book feels so long but that might be a me-problem.

I have conflicted feelings reading this girl's journal.

Several of these chapters I want to climb inside and live in the writing.

Taking me back to my social work days and I'm 10 types of mad.

It seems the author got distracted less than halfway through and switched from a history about the Harlem Hellfighters to a history of Harlem from WW1 to...I'm not sure b/c I haven't finished it. I'm disappointed.

Gonna try to focus on the history and not getting angry at the thieves.

Y'know when all your library holds come through at once and the book you were hoping to savor is among them? I'm giving this time when I can but I'm sorry I can't read it leisurely. As before, Osman writes like he really enjoys these characters and I love that.

Something about this feels herky-jerky as if the author has a theme she wants to use/tell and she's making these characters do it.

Good God, this book

The trope of "I'm gonna secretly break all the rules behind my friend's back for my friend's own good, IMO...what do you mean no one trusts me anymore?" is so puerile to me. And dismissing classics as a whole (when you've barely explored the genre) while working in a bookstore *that sells classics* is bananas to me. I think I get what the author is trying to do but it's a cringy path.