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I fear there are too many characters in this. I was really vibing with the first perspective (despite gruesome kitten death on like page 2) and I keep waiting for the story to come back around to that plot but he just keeps introducing more and more new POVs, each more unlikeable than the last. Still, there's something compulsively readable about this and the translation is really well done; it reads very naturally.

Yes, I am currently listening to three audiobooks because none of them were compelling enough to fully hold my attention 🥴

I fear this narration style is Not For Me

History (the Goodreads plot description) will say that they're "friends"

This was one of my most anticipated books of the year but I'm feeling such disappointment after picking it up. The writing is bland & colourless; even the Nancy Drew novels (which this book is compared to) have more personality. Speaking of personality, all of the characters so far just feel like cardboard cutouts. I'm ready to be surprised as I read on, but this is truly some of the most Nothing prose I've ever read

Pretty audacious for a formulaic thriller novel to open with the Leo Tolstoy quote “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” when all the characters are stereotypes seen in 1000000000 formulaic thrillers before

So far: Nancy Drew meets Twin Peaks, set in Canada. I am the exact target audience and I am LOVING it

This was a sort of joke gift and I wasn't sure if I was going to read it but then I saw it was set in almost same time and place as the mystery novel I'm writing so now I feel I have to (this book is set in 1900 New York City, mine is 1902 upstate New York)

For the love of god, if half of the characters have British accents, please get an audiobook narrator who can actually do a British accent

Really not understanding the hype for this one

These people are insane because who only begins to plan a WEEK LONG WORLD FAMOUS Christmas Festival THE FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER???

It's that time of the year when I just want to read the literary equivalent of marshmallow fluff

I feel like I'm having a stroke

Christopher is the WORSTT

Forget the fictional video games in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, I want to play Noble Baker

I HATE murder mysteries in which they don't tell you who was murdered, what a stupid trope

Woman starts business selling postcards of photos of words written in the sand; needs help to come up with the name "Written in the Sand" for said business 🙄

The twist in this book better be worth it.

"Her nipples are darker than her skin." Yeah that's natural Deborah

Meredith is a spineless idiot

I'm too far in to quit now but after reading a a comparison between a doctor conducting a gynecology exam with someone scooping out a pumpkin I really really want to

This book:
93% Childbirth, parenting, pregnancy, prenatal care, doula-ing
7% Mystery

"We write because language is the way we keep a hold on life. With words we experience our deepest understandings of what it means to be intimate...Even though writing is a solitary act, when I sit with words that I trust will be read by someone, I know that I can never be truly alone. There is always someone who waits for words, eager to embrace them and hold them close." Wow.

the amount of "I'm not like other girls" energy this book has could power a small city