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an absolutely GOAT’d end to the epilogue. holy shit.

it’s just SO good

Someone teach Ali Hazelwood ways to conclude chapters that aren’t:

A) falling asleep
B) getting knocked out in the middle of an action sequence

We hit the smut and Ms Ali is done with anything plot related.

Time to wrap this shit up in 30 pages or less despite pretending it held actual narrative weight for 400 pages. Wooo!

Against my better judgement,,,, I am eating this up

I feel like Ali Hazelwood is going the way of SJM where her writing worsens with every new book instead of improving.

I’ve already finished this and am on my second listen because I’ve enjoyed it so much and want to internalise the information a bit better.

reading this in light of the current ozempic/heroin-chic revival is very illuminating

it’s hard not to see the correlation between how certain actors/singers are looking and the rise of conservatism in popular culture

Desperately need a good non fiction to wake up my brain and make me not crave Tik Tok brain rot

And I will forever judge every person who buys a new phone every other year. Holy fuck.

Jaime loses his hand and becomes 10x funnier

really weird the way this has been edited in terms of the order of the sections/topics of the book. an abbreviated semi-comprehensive history of how the Congo has been exploited since the early days of slavery placed midway through the book feels unwise, particularly given we’ve already been briefed on some of these events in previous chapters.

there’s also a weird reverence to the US that’s quite strange

an Israeli American found to be part of a corrupt and exploitative colonial system that supports modern day slavery and commits human rights abuses? nobody is fucking surprised.

I truly am just like every other bitch

the ending of this is pretty predictable and a bit boring, but the rest of it was so passionate and wholesome that I kinda don’t even care

I have to know what Mr Evans thinks of what’s going on America right now.

We joke that the US is going down the fascist crap-shoot but then you listen and read a book in which past events are being mirrored in real time by real world political violence and it’s just staggering (Wessel vs Kirk)

would love to know how many times “skies and seas” appears because the mc sure does say it an awful lot

why yes I am crying because the side character is sad about an animal what of it

just saw a video of a US right-wing politician quoting Joseph Goebbels and I just…. can we wake the fuck up

the rivals are rivalling in this one

the extreme right and MAGA right have just verbatim ripped shit out of pre-WW2 political germany.

“Göring reminded his listeners that the forthcoming election would be the last, not just for the next four years but probably for the next hundred.”

what world are we living in

this is just so fun so far. you can really tell how much the author loves the world and specifically the animals they’ve created. it’s so lovely when you can feel an authors passion shining through

drawing some horrifying parallels between Horst Wessel — whom after being shot dead, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated to being a martyr for the Nazi Party — and a certain other right-wing mouthpiece

history doesn’t repeat, but it sure does fucking rhyme

that little author’s note was so compelling and wholesome and moving and i hope so desperately that this book is good lmao

so interesting, and so dense.

can definitely see the stark parallels and similarities to the last few decades in the US

ava reid writes in a way that resonates on the exact wavelength as my soul HOW did it take me this long to pick her books up

oh! this is one of the guys who helped slam dunk david irving. even more excited now!!

apparently my taste in books is now that of a 50 year old white man

we need to luigi every pharmaceutical company ceo in the most excruciating way possible i am so serious