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no one is angry enough and there are no stakes and every conflict is resolved immediately. its almost subversive in how blasé it is

maybe if we spent more than 1 page in total developing dani's characterization before now, I would understand her thought process BEFORE she makes the decisions she does and don't have to rely on single throwaway lines doing damage control

it's incredibly funny to me that despite lying all book about every little inconsequential thing, she suddenly forgets that lying her way out of this is a option. this is so stupid. this is beyond stupid. i'm losing sleep over how stupid this is, surely in this decade we can think of other third act breakup plots

this does sometimes feel like a second draft of a book that lynn painter had no emotional attachment to and will forget writing in five years

not a single reasonable adult in this whole book what are we doing

maybe I do just hate fun because everyone here is melancholic as shit and suddenly I'm like hmm maybe I don't hate lynn painter's writing

wait. wait wait pause am i crazy or is this dynamic actually incredibly intriguing

no one warned me about how howl's moving castle-esque this is

no no no not girl falls first no

the concept of doing triple jumps after a month of training my eye is twitching

charleston mention omg i jumped

and this is why i keep saying harriet and ben needed 2 book but whatever

yea yeah yeah yes more of this

i actually started violently shaking they got me hook line sinker oh joanaharriet i missed you SO bad when i rate this book 5 stars off this scene alone wow what a rush

the taylor swift private jet-ification of tom cobalt what happened to my broke loser men

yes rereading again I really don't want to hear it

do we think it counts as reaching my reading goal if i just reread the 3 books i know i can count on again and again until january

oh I missed my girl so bad

really really truly bad idea for me to be rereading this during the jgps

first of all, those are not equal wrongs. second of all, WHY ARE THEY ALREADY KISSING STOP IT

he better not be the love interest he's pissed me off more than once

i feel retrospectively robbed of simone ashley screen time

is all of historical romance just dubious consent

he's such a dick he's such a dick he's such a dick

i'm getting the foxhole court flashbacks

this writing style oh brother

I love caroline so bad

i really don't know how we're going to redeem the mom

the way this book talks about weed is so

her dad dying in the same way that i was scared my dad would die during my weird three year pre-med-origin stint of parental death nightmares is so