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I came reallly close to giving up on this book before it finally hooked me about 90 pages in. It also helped when I started combo-listening to the audiobook and reading the hardcover. It's a wild ride but now I'm invested.

I'm going to finish this because I need it for summer book bingo (city in title) and because the writing is lyrical. I might have liked it if I'd read it a few years ago, but in 2019 I'm not in the mood for an indulgent "boys will be boys" type of fictional(ized?) memoir no matter how skillful the sentences.

Highly recommended by Twitter :-)

I'm really enjoying this so far. The characters and setting are vividly drawn and the plot is fun (well, as much fun as a fictional murder mystery can be).

I'm super frustrated that I can't binge-read this entire engrossing novel because I keep having to do things like "chores" and "parenting" and "sleep" aaaaaagh!

I would be reading this in one giant gulp if I didn't have to keep stop for silly reasons like "making my children food" and "ensuring they are picked up from school on time."

I've barely started this but my brain is twitchy over the cover (two lovely brown eyes) not matching the description of the heroine, whose strange mismatched (one brown, one green) eyes have been mentioned three times already! Aaaagh!

I'm reading up on architecture and design to figure out what we want and need in our future homes.

In the wake of #yesallwomen this book is perfect for my current frame of mind. Also, it's mostly very funny.

I kind of love this book already.

"Dazed because, yes, when she'd been looking for her shoe, she'd seen bodies in the water. Lifeless bodies..."It'll be OK," Adina said, even though she was pretty sure this was the textbook definition of so not okay."