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There’s a moment in this where the author (in her very annoying, too-sarcastic prose writes) “never go back for the cat, right? That’s how you get eaten by aliens.” And unless she’s referencing a different alien franchise this is actually not what happens to Ripley.

I think Clancy and I have a little different view of The Troubles.

This is very unsettling.

Writing style is odd to me. It uses a third person omniscient narration, but the way you constantly know what literally any character is thinking arrives at an odd cross-section when it’s also fairly sexist: I’ll know what a woman is thinking despite her only referred to as “the sister-in-law”. Which is in itself weird when she’s the mother of the girl whose death is the inciting incident.