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This can't be for real. If the entire book is as atrocious as that first chapter, it might be the first book club book I don't finish.

Really love how every woman but the main character is either a replacement mother, a victim, or a psychotic shrew. 🙄

The characters have such ridiculous fantasy names that the book needs a pronunciation guide at the front, but one of the horses is named Bill?! I just can't with this book.

Ugh, stop just typing things into Google translate and using them to be "exotic"

I cannot get past how dumb these two girls are. I don't know if I can finish this one.

This book is so confusing and just all around bad. If I didn't have to read it for a book club, I would have quite about 100 pages ago.

Wow, Bryde is a tool. I'm still holding out for him to be the villain.

Opening with a quote misattributed to Buddha and an extreme confusion over the use of commas vs. semi-colons. Strong start.

Every husband in this book is a terrible, sexist jerk, and I hope they all get eaten.

My annual November reading of this.

Are fat jokes and jokes about nationality really necessary? This guy is an ass.

I don't think I've ever hated a character as much as I hate Konstantin.

Oof, I hate every person I this book. Except Kaz.

His discussion of Mona Lisa is making me wish this book was written by a woman instead.

This book would be half as long if you took out all the calls to post on social media using his hashtag. And a quarter long if you took out all the judgemental comments about other people. I'm really verging on DNFing this.

This is taking me forever to read and the whole thing feels so sexist and outdated. Not sure if I should bother finishing it.

Well this book is certainly eye-opening.

Sorry, straight white cis dude, but challenging people who are racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. is not being entitled and lacking in emotionally resilience. It's just not being a dick.

This book is...not good.

I'm not sure I'm going to be able to handle 10 hours of this narrator's stilted speech.

This book is a study in irresponsible parenting.

I'm not sure I've ever hated a group of characters as much as I hate almost everyone in this book.

I'm 32 pages in and already sick of the literary device she's using to introduce each character. This really doesn't bode well for the rest of the book.

There are far too many spiders in this book.

Poor James Patterson is really not coming off well inn this book.

Well, I never thought an Archie comic, let alone one about zombies, would make me cry, but here we are.

Sigh. I really want to sit this author down and have a conversation about internalized misogyny.

I might be a little in love with Roxane Gay.

So when does this stop being her repeating "the way you've been tidying is wrong" 40 different ways and start being, you know, life-changing?

How have I never read this before? It's fantastic.