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“Love songs are drawn to them. Lavender is like catnip… It’s the nature of songs to soothe.”

She’s like a wiff of fresh air as a MC, dry humour and unapologetically honest

Hmm… is Haru a ghost? But then Eric should be able to see Daniel then… And the description says Eric is imagining a lot of what’s happening, but I’m so confused about what’s real and what’s not real.

Come on Oak, you got yourself into this sitch, don’t be like that…

I’mma guess that she has the heart within her that they need… it’s kinda obvious

Holy sh I forgot how talented Black’s writing is, this is such a page turner!

Ooo, what is this red, blue and green door? Why did the wooden ball entice Aubry to stay in the library? Very interesting thoughts

Ok, so she said that she "killed" him so I feel like she was at fault cuz she led to his death and his ghost is haunting her so quite tragic, but I won't know 'til the end.

I had the theory that it was Sebastian that killed the kid, which is the puzzle the Plague Doctor set the three souls to. Now, I believe the narrator is Evelyn Hardcastle, since they have seven days, and there is the Seven Deaths in the title.

'Despite her relatively short stature, and the dark, fragile air of over-breeding about her-'
Excuse me??

I AM BAWLING MATE. The descriptions of her daughter as a baby... god he should suffer

Wow, I just realized she set up 28 chapters with the 28 questions. Genius.
And this book is BEAUTIFUL inside and out

A lot of internalized monologue that takes up a chunk of the book has me dawdling to the end.

'She laughs like I knew she would, and I catch a photo of exquisite joy. I angle to take another one and she kisses me on the cheek.'
Ah! They are sooo cute 🥰🥰

Reid's acting a big, dumb oaf losing all that character development and I would've preferred Ansel as a love interest more.

Reid's an idiot. I would've like Ansel as a loce interest, more.

"She lived in happy solitude and grew old, and never worried when her beauty faded, for in her reflection she always saw a free woman."
What a beautiful quote. I'm loving these shorts stories.

Femi Fadugba has given the memory time travel concept a name: chronosthesia, which can only be accessed through a traumatic event called the WINDOW. Blake Crouch didn't really have a name for it in Inversion but I'm glad Fedugba does in their novel.

'Life wjth a cheat code isn't life. Our existence isn't something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That's what it us to be human - the beauty and the pain, each meaningless withoyt the other.'

Thisbook just made a chilling allusion to Evelyn McHale, and her "beautiful suicide". Very disturbing. This novel is more of a slowburn compared to Crouch's Dark Matter. I am really loving the memory travel theme!

'Life is nothing how he expected it would be when he was young and living under the delusion that things could be cintrolled. Only endured.'
Learning that Barry and Julia lost Meghan made me a bit emotional. I guess it's cuz the last page was about Barry drunkily revisiting their old house and the tree trunk witht heir initials in it, and the cops understanding the tragedy. I have a similar family.

I already want a sequel 😩

DNF
She just made a hare die a slow and agonizing death to communicate to an imaginary woman covered in bees. WTF is going on?!

'A sperm whale is so called because stabbing one in the head with a harpoon makes it spurt forth oil in a way that reminded whale hunters of ejaculation. And if a sperm whale is just an oil ejaculator and not an emontionally complex being then it is okay to go about slaughtering them.'

'They [Inuit] do not see humans as different from the animals; there are not separate taxonomical categories of being. A person can become a man or a woman, a tree or a stone.'
Is the way I see things as well, our souls all come from the Big Bang, and we all have a bit of star dust in us, so I believe you can be reincarnated as a bird or a caterpillar.

'They [flying birds] would always fill me up against the magic of hope, their tiny defiant bodies wheelijg against the sky so small against the big, so dark against the blue, and so free.'
I've been in a reading slump lately becaude of some life changes, but Abi Andrews' "The word for woman is wilderness' is so beautiful with its heavy nature themes and little illustrations of flora and fauna.

why is it so depressing right off the bat, like give warmth and joy but no i had to go from.a brutal book to another- why do i torture myself like this 😔 but I know it'll be good

BRITTA'S HER PROTECTOR NOW 😍

'A girl my age with a plump figure and the blue eyes and blonde hair... she smiles at me cheerfully.'
I really am liking Britta, she's so sweet to Deka. Is it narcissistic that I imagine myself as Britta? I do this alot with characters that I could look like and I also like the story more when I can imagine me in it. I hope nothing bad happens to her ☹ cuz Deka's getting sh*tted on by everyone but Britta.