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...oh this book is special 🥹 Please let it stay that way 🥹

I feel like if PN mystery romance won't cure my reading slump, nothing will, so fingers crossed! 🤞🥺

Oooh another parental figure I can hate on! Nice 🫩😤

I can't focus on anything but the fact that the author is probably confusing a therapist with a psychiatrist, the term is being kinda interchanged. Is it the country difference? Is a psychiatrist the same as a therapist in the USA?

How are these boys so damn mature AND so hilarious in such a juvenile way?? Love the contrast ❤️

Cameron's expression softens like warming chocolate. "Hey, water boy."
"Mm?"
"Who hurt you?"

...ummm, dear Woody, wouldn't it be more efficient to simply crack my ribcage, pull my heart out, and stomp on it? Just asking 🥲🥲

...I swear to all that's unholy if Jude doesn't make it out, I'll fucking lose it 🙈🙈 Someone just take him away 😭😭

Okay guys but WHERE is my grovelling?? Ryan sure as hell deserves one from Lars, come on, don't leave me hanging 😩
Despite the slight dip in my attention around the 50-60 percent, it's been a while since I've been this locked in a book 😳

"[...]The war them grown beasts wage on the wee ones of the world," Clara said. "They mightn't have tanks and growly guns like the war your papa faded into, but it's full of weapons all the same, of lashings and narrow closets and all the ways they wish to cut you until you make sense for them. Never do it, little mercy. Never make sense for them."

❤️💔

Reread because Pauline convinced me it's a must for me. She's absolutely right, of course 💔💙🧡

Henry did not believe he had ever felt jealousy so keenly, so achingly, a sort of hot tar-like thickness in his veins, burning him from the inside out

Same, Henry. Fucking same. This book should be a five-star read but I LOATHE one aspect of it, and that's Theophilus almost constantly thinking about someone other than Henry >_< I don't want to read about one of the MC growing closer to someone else!

No but watching Theophilus completely lose it with Henry, and Henry getting 💦excited💦 about it, gives me life, I'm giggling like mad 🤣❤️
I love them 🫠

😭 scenes depicting a break of trust always get me 🥺
(Finally, a book makes me feel things. Yes please, make me tear up!)

Teddy was 25 years old in May, 1939. Teddy also celebrated his 28th birthday in October, 1939.
You know, I'm just kind of skimming by now, and I'm still catching these things. The author could have, too, I'm sure, if he bothered to proofread his own book 🙈

Really? A guy who was born probably around 1915 and died in 1939 is a great-uncle of someone living in 2024? My math is glitching.
Though that's just a small detail in all the things that genuinely don't make sense, making the plot seem like a swiss cheese 🧀

My heart thumped so hard I could feel my butthole pulsing against the chair like it was trying to eat it.

😬😬😬 Okay I really enjoy the story so far, it's very fun in a dramatic way I'm apparently in the mood for, BUT for the love of ALL you find holy, stahp with these lines 😩 A part of me dies every time I get such a cringe jumpscare 😬

It was so much easier living in other people's emotions than trying to untangle his own.

Ah well. Call me out on this very fine day, why don't you 🙈

"Disemboweling is where they slice open your abdomen and pull out the end of your large intestine. Then they nail it to a tree and make you walk yourself around the tree."

👁👄👁 well now, I did NOT know that 😳 I kinda like how this book swings between silly teenage shenanigans and seriously creepy gruesome imagery, it somehow works really well 😳

I think I prefer it when I'm dissociating because when I'm fully here, fully present in my mind, I start to realize I don't like myself very much.

Guys, meet Nathaniel Conti. He's here to shatter my heart, which I already entrusted him with 🥺❤️

"So what if I touch you?!" Li Baoguo bellowed. "I fucking jizzed you out of my dick. Forget touching you, if I beat you up right now, it's still not your place to talk shit to me!"

Father of the year, this charmer. Hey, Jiang Cheng? I know exactly where to hide a body inconspicuously (at my workplace heheHE), hit me up anytime, dear ❤️💀👿

"Oh, wow. We don't know what happens tomorrow and now we do that? I should just have been like, You make me panic and I kind of can't stop thinking about kissing you, instead of telling you fun facts about ancient languages." She catches her breath. "Fun facts are my love language."
I shrug. "Apparently the apocalypse is mine."

Relatable, both of them 😅😅

Well damn, my brain will never be comfortable with audiobooks, it's just a person droning on in my ears (sorry!) but when each character has their own voice and there are sound affects? Seems like that's something I can do 🥰
(the story is trashy but the performance? 😳 woah)

God but Miles' mom is overbearing, trying to play a matchmaker to his teenage son, I've got second-hand embarrassment 🙈 If you're a parent, be a dear and DON'T do that, ever. It's not cute. At all.

Rafael listens to power metal - and that's how easily I can pick a favourite character 🤭 (no, Skylar, it's not "really terrible music", thank you very much 😌)

"Oh...okay. It...don't worry...it wasn't anything much," he whispers with a sob in his throat.

Is Mr Backman allergic to happiness? Why is he so intent on destroying mine? 🥲 asking for a friend 🙈

I haven't been able to get through two fucking pages in a row without getting teary-eyed or outright crying, at this point.
Listen, dear Mr Backman. I love you. But could you plase stop making me lose body water?? My main daily fluid intake is coffee, I can't afford this level of dehydration!
🥲🥲🥲

Ramona has always had room in her heart for those who have succeeded in life, but the space she spares for those whose lives have gone to hell will always be infinitely larger.

Same, queen, same ❤️

So there ought to be two words for that, one for the home which can carry you through your darkest moments, and one for the home which binds you. Because sometimes we stay in towns and marriages simply because we would otherwise have no story. We have too much in common. We think no one else would be able to understand us.

Kiro Volkov!! Do I smell a friend for David?? 😳😳
(why the hell do I feel like a mama bear looking for a playmate for her lonely cub 🙈🥹)

I feel attached to David already, damn. Jack will have a HARD time winning me over even a little bit 😬 David all the way 🥹