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Now here's a book where the plot gets going on page 1.

Nah, things have just about started happening but I'm moving on because I'm fed up and annoyed. Pro tip for anyone considering reading this book: start on page 40. Between pages 40-45 they literally recap everything which previously happened and then the plot actually begins around page 50. What the point of the first 40 pages were, I don't know. SO many books do this that I've started giving up on principle.

What IS it with books and getting started so slowly? I'm nearly on page 50 and nothing has happened!

Not entirely sure why I'm reading this ... But I seem to be...

Obviously

Quite cross with Anne. She is being so unpleasant and manipulative that I can barely stand to read it.

Going to try to read this in parallel in Welsh and English chapter by chapter.

Going to try to read this in parallel in Welsh and English chapter by chapter.

I can see what other reviews are talking about with this being slow to get going. The blurb says "messages begin to appear" I am on page 50 and none has appeared yet and neither has anything else happened. If this continues much longer I will not be impressed.

Just finished the first. Very sweet and uplifting. A promising start.

I'm irritated by the cherry-picked gender analysis in the 'a Side Note on Stigma' chapter. No mention of the very relevant fact that his example crimes: mass shootings and sexual abuse, are ones which have notably few female perpetrators. Then no mention of how women attempt suicide more frequently than men, but by less violent (& thus successful) means. Then he concludes that men are really hard done by... Piss off.