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had no mood for it so it'll remain on my tbr for another time

tbh I had way more appreciation for this book before Anne and Rackham were introduced because cheap romance and semi-implied/explicit smut ruined the flow. moreover, initially the format was following the narrator within the story and switching between the two, whereas after 50% mark it blended both women together & there's no clear distinction between who's telling it anymore, eliminating the impact of unreliability

it had to ruin the prose with heavy handed, character as a mouthpiece, white guilt/saviour complex spiel that uses all the right buzzwords with tldr "slavery is bad" in a very annoying american-centric manner. ugh.

mosscap for main character 📣👏🏼💙✨
dex to the trashbin 🗑️🚮

Finally started reading this for book club. Immediately disappointed that the first chapter starts with "fuck" and has sentence structures similar to online comments on tiktok in 2020. Not to mention trying to build background relationships for characters within one paragraph via "telling not showing" — why should I care?