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This may be the final boss of books that play with form! It took me a little while to settle into but so far I’m intrigued!

"Restoration means creating a beautiful ghost."

I’m going to need others who have read this to weigh in on the “My mother is a fish” of it all.

Really wishing I could reach through the pages and hug Jacqueline Susann right now, writing that Jennifer storyline must have been devastating. (If you know, you know!)

Am now convinced that HBY has never actually met a bisexual man because what is this loosely assembled caricature? 😭

Listening on audio and… so far this is not great! Why are romance authors so unbearably weird about tattoos? 😭

Yeah she’s thiiiick, but also this feels like I’m watching a movie, so it goes down easy (so far)

What in the Wicker Man is going ON?!

This is so fascinating. Bog people are one of my most obsessive niche special interests!

Looper meets Brienne of Tarth. This is one of the most fascinating set-ups with gorgeous prose. I am obsessed.

I’m not saying Tom Cruise needs to get a restraining order laid against Mona Awad, but the fact that there’s reference to him in two of her most cult-adjacent books is certainly interesting…

The reread begins 🐇🪓