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I knew the twist right away, right from when she arrived in the castle.

I just looked up the laws and prices. She is allowed to buy up to 250 kg of ammo, which is insane and she’s likely spending about $1000 on it as a conservative estimate. Not including the gun she’s also about to buy. Crazy! She must have gotten a lot of money from the agency after her kidnapping or something.

I know Sydney is probably paranoid from her past ordeal, but fifty boxes of ammo sounds like a ton. Doesn’t that raise any red flags for the store? Just how many bullets is that?

I am genuinely enjoying this book right now, but the look on my face would suggest otherwise. The thought of drinking blood makes me want to vomit. I feel like that must have spread so much disease!

It’s kind of anachronistic that I like medical history books so much while being so insanely squeamish. I must admit that this chapter on bloodletting is making me incredibly uncomfortable. It’s a good thing I’m lying down!

My thoughts so far are that the book isn’t poorly written, but it’s failing to grab me. I feel like I’m not a part of the story, but am just witnessing it. For example, when we’re told Sydney is holding off a panic attack, it’s simply stated. I have panic attacks and I feel like my ideal book would draw me in and make me feel as if I was there with Sydney, struggling to get the words out, bathed in fear.

I don’t think I’ve ever looked down at a dress I was wearing and thought “it emphasized the curve of my breasts”. That’s a strange thought to have about yourself, especially from that angle.

Love the references to Pernkopf’s Atlas! I just watched an amazing Scishow video about its history on YouTube, so it feels like a crossover of sorts!

Another typo. Who’s instead of whose. Relatively common, but would be missed by a word processor.

I know Sydney is in a remote area and her phone probably wouldn’t work in the woods. Now that she’s home though, call 911! She found a man injured in the middle of the woods. He needs proper medical attention and a police report!

Now there’s a word missing an apostrophe. I know self published books don’t tend to have editors, but a proofreader might have been nice.

It’s the same typo again. The author does not know the difference between to and too.

“His eyes revealed nothing but evil”. Ooph that’s a bad line. You’re going to tell us outright that he’s evil without telling us that he had a menacing look in his eyes or something that reveals it a little more indirectly?

There’s a typo in the dedications. As in, before page 1. I’ve never had that happen before…

I’m so bored.

This is why I struggle with self help books. It keeps telling me all the things it will help me with in the future and why they will be helpful in an incredibly repetitive way. It feels like filler. I know how to use a table of contents and an index and I am legitimately planning on reading the whole book. Stop wasting my time and just tell me the information straight up.

I know it’s a kink thing, but their power dynamic during intimacy creeps me out. He’s so condescending and I kind of hate it.

I love when authors reference their own books as if they’re all set in the same universe. It’s nice to see Nolan and Mallory mentioned!

So not only is Kieran a terrible person, but now Waverly tortures prisoners for information? Is there a single person in this book who isn’t a monster? No wonder I’m having trouble getting through it.

I don’t think footnotes should be ready in their entirety at the end of an audiobook. Perhaps they should have been read at the end of each chapter (or even each page, like they are in the book itself) so they would be more applicable to their subject matter? Having them presented all at once at the very end of the book seems strange.

As a Canadian, I’m kind of put off by how the author is portraying Canadians. The ones she’s portraying are from B.C. and no one I have met from B.C. talks like that. They feel more like caricatures for comedic effect than real people.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder represent!

Chapter seven had absolutely lovely trans representation that I didn’t expect to see in a historical fiction novel. Despite the hate crime, it was absolutely heartwarming to see how Jackaby sees the world and allows people to choose who they are of their own accord.

This grown woman is embarrassed to use her inhaler, a medical device, in front of a handsome man? Is she stupid? That’s one of the dumbest things to be self conscious about that I can think of. Asthma is so common!

Gah I hate Connor so much! Stop treating her like a child and invalidating her opinions! Just say you’re genuinely not interested and she’ll go away.

It’s lovely to hear Iwan from The Seven Year Slip mentioned! I wonder if all of Ashley Poston’s novels take place in the same world.

This book has an incredibly messed up view of suicide and the morality of taking over someone’s body. People do not generally commit suicide for attention and it hasn’t mentioned the mental health aspect of it at all. It simply seems like a plot point that may allow the alien to get a human body. It’s all giving me the ick. I don’t like this.

I’m not sure if I’m supposed to like Charlie or Ray, but I can’t force myself to like any man who calls a woman a f*ck-puppet. Is that supposed to be humour or just straight up misogyny?

Also, he should stop adopting pets if he’s just going to kill them all. It’s cruel.

I don’t know where I actually am because the audiobook won’t tell me, but every single character is a caricature and every single situation is over the top. It’s also somewhat racist. Was this okay in 2005?