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Aiming to finish this one today, but we'll see.

This is definitely a You've Got Mail situation, isn't it? Enemies in real life not aware they're actually (telepathic) pen pals?

I wouldn't say I'm loving this, but it's not nearly so bad as I expected from the average rating.

Yep, that's our murder boy Ripley alright

"Ace wandered away from the Library, thinking about sex and death. She glanced up at the Doctor, deep in thought. He wasn't really into either, she figured. If he died, he'd just regenerate, and although he sometimes let slip things about a family, he never seemed to fancy anybody."

Asexual Doctor (or #7, at least) confirmed! Ace and ace, lol.

Okay, I can't complain too much about a Goodreads call-out, but you can't actually rate a book as zero stars on here, dude

noooooooooooooo

"Full dark, no stars" lol okay my guy

Blue chambray shirt in a Stephen King / Joe Hill book. Take a shot!

Oooh, I was wondering what the rest of the book would be about. That's devious.

It's early yet, but this is the kind of scene that elevates a book from a 4 to a 5. I'm just saying!

I see you referencing The Dead Zone, sir 👀

This is a TRIP. Though I'd expect nothing less from the Whalefall guy, I guess.

Words this audiobook reader has mispronounced: a) hearth and b) plait. Embarrassing mistake for her, but really reflects poorly on the director / editor / producer of this.

Idk if I'm supposed to laugh every time they mention the name of the kingdom is Blunder but like. I do.

Yeah, so this is pretty dreadful so far. The worst sort of pompous middle-aged male angst.

Okay... but why are you both working so hard to retrieve your abuser's soul from hell?

"That was one of the joys of specializing in linguistics: the escape from pure maths."

Extremely weird, but I'm digging it so far. (Read this much on this morning's flight to Seattle.)

This is probably going to be a two-star, and I do feel bad about that. Oh well.

1) This is too far into the book to still be playing coy about how the two main protagonists are connected.

2) Why so many flashback's to Alice's childhood? I really feel like they're doing nothing to flesh out her character or her current predicament.

"I was so turned around by now I couldn't have pointed to the way out if you'd put a gun to my head. I was seriously considering leaving a trail of breadcrumbs behind me, or unreeling a long thread, or carving directional arrows in the polished woodwork. But that would have been uncouth, and I hate running out of couth in the middle of a case."

Good AU history / worldbuilding, but I still feel like I don't know anything about the narrator except that he's Jewish and a kid. This book needs more of his presence in it.

Book #145 of this year apparently isn't on Goodreads yet (Olive and the Dragon by Victoria Goddard; just came out this week). Gonna post the review on my blog and try to remember to come back and add it here at some point when I can.