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I like it so far! It is weird and funny, and bizarre. The mysterious space ships appearing remind me of Arrival, but I suspect that there will be no further similarities

I don’t want to be a ghost - amazing

Death Row Doorbell & The Mystery of thr Haunted House - so good !!!

Lucy absolutely steals any scene he is in 😭

Half the time i don’t understand what’s happening in this book. i like it though

I don’t care about miss wellwood

The progress on this is slow, but I am really enjoying every word. The writing - love. The characters - kooky and so, so lively. This book has a heart, and it shows on every page.

surely this book didn’t have to be so poorly written just because the movie came first

This whole poor family has probably lost their marbles

I will have to sleep with a light on

I understand the narrative need for the parents to monlogue at their kid, but damn...Bela really does not need to be hearing all of this. Her parents treat her as a confessional.

Literally every other page is making my eyes well up with tears. I have not read a story that provoked such love and sadness in me in a long time.

The sentences are so clipped, i feel like every time i read the flow of words is disturbed. It makes reading this very slow and kind of annoying

I love how quickly this reads, although sometimes I find myself being struck by how simple the prose is, especially when describing the inner thoughts of our characters. Maybe the third person POV is to blame? The worldbuilding is awesome, it feels immersive, but not too convoluted

I think we should stop putting stuff like “this is the successor to THG” on the cover of books. I find that it is really tainting my reading experience

I might be wrong, but so far, I do not like this. The writing feels really bleak, everything is very clearly words on a page…they are not evoking anything to me. Maybe it gets better

Breaking news: reading a low-stakes, feel-good, light hearted book will actually make you happy if you don’t listen to the worm in your brain telling you to read “serious” and “substantial” books

Here goes nothing😃