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once again very ya and heavy handed conversations. i do think it’s an interesting perspective to bring up that jay in this case is “a colonizer” coming into the philippines with his western perspective and trying to apply it to the political world of the philippines. the random love story thread is kinda irritating

so it’s kinda obvious that certain characters exist to push the plot along in a pretty heavy handed manner, that mainly being mia who can both speak tagalog and also just have investigative journalism knowledge. but also it’s a ya novel so i get the heavy handedness. my only other comment is that it’s so frustrating that grace and jay don’t talk about jun like it’s right there !!!

main character is stressing me out so bad. i also didn’t realize this was a ya novel so ill chill on the criticism since its meant for a younger audience. it is really refreshing though to see so many references to being pinoy and manila and the philippines

a little heavy handed in the messaging but maybe they’re just 17

crazy to watch this sixteen year old get radicalized by his gf

book felt weaker the moment the squid revealed the whole plot of the book… it was just moreso annoying waiting for all the pieces to fit into place

ok he has grown on me and i find their relationship endearing

cameron makes me so anxious he’s such a fuck up

every character annoys me except for ethan

cam is such a bum i can’t

i can already tell this is gonna make me cry lol

over halfway through. it’s really satisfying seeing her life go the way it’s going now. karmaic forces i suppose

she is so infuriatingly fun to read

she’s such a bitch it’s incredible

she’s so insufferable it’s wonderful

garrett graham u will always be famous

im eating this up dude

sorry the hetslops got a hold of me

charlie suddenly very confident is wow

i am very charmed by these two

another autistic character to collect and join my elite clientele

i dislike how a lot of the revelations for our characters have to be spelled out explicitly for them

i think i like this book a teensy bit less bc i think the romance and falling in love parts felt really fast to me? i don’t think im fully bought in to psyche developing feelings this fast.

they fall in love like really fast but that’s ok i’ll take it

greek mythology time!

whew the parallels are insane