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if a new emily henry book can't hijack my attention span to enjoy reading again, i don't know what can

when you are sitting on a lonely lighthouse in gloomy Istanbul and a friend tells you that it feels exactly like a Moomin book, your curiosity cannot help getting peaked

I think I have just realised where this is going and if my theory is correct it is DIABOLICAL

once you realize this book reads exactly like a wes anderson film you simply cannot unhear it

the chills I get every time papa van laar is on the page are unparalleled, truly genius subtle writing of an abusive husband

for someone who usually hates modern references in books, I'm eating this up!

does it make me chronically online to recognize the exact Fortnite dance mentioned by just one sentence?

oh how I love messy contemporary fiction

delightful!

the further I go, the stronger the "Timothee Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name" energy with one of the mcs, sometimes to the absurd, and I don't know how to process that

how is there still so much plot left

have I bitten off more than I can chew with this one? Let's find out!

I just want to give Ellie a big hug

"...Starfire gasps at the assortment of disjointed tatoos this reveals."

Miles = Kurtis Conner confirmed?

currently fighting my way through the non-stop info dump that is the first third of this book in the name of vaguely enjoying Merlin when I was younger

so an intense queer-coded best friendship in late teens is truly a bisexual rite of passage, I feel so seen

the question is, do I finish reading the next 50 pages of torture and a man slowly being broken into shape by an oppressive regime, or do I just accept that I get the gist of where this is going and move on to less depressing pastures?