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I accidentally read a spoiler about this but oh it did not prepare me for how very strangely this occurs

Okay, it's picking up, everyone is becoming more unhinged (or it's that I am not barely clinging to wakefulness as I read this for once)

I was so jazzed for this but I think I'm going to end up agreeing with the reviews I skimmed that said too many battles (too many names too). I so strongly prefer character-driven books and this isn't hitting it for me.

I have fully given up on learning all the names and places, we're just going on vibes now

Yo. This book is absolutely brutal and is 200% not screwing around. It is A LOT to be reading right now (religious zealotry functionally ends the world via releasing a viral plague and the few survivors are still wearing masks years on.). Actually thankful that I'm not a very visual reader because hoo boy there is some serious body horror and lots of barfing that I do not need in mental technicolor.

SIGH. I'm putting this back on my TBR, I somehow missed this was coming at the concept from a self-help perspective and that is super duper not what I am looking for right now.

What an unexpected treat this is. Some of it is not unlike being slapped in the face BUT in an important way. This is also a book absolutely begging for marginalia and quick illustrations.

This is like soup for the emptiness that I think we're all feeling right now.

Definitely took me a hot minute to figure out where I heard about this book let alone decided to buy it

Oh I think I am just too fuzzy brained for this book but this was today's plan since I absolutely need to crank out some of my TBR, so I'm powering through

Why did I have to read this set of sentences with my own eyes... Fearless sighed. "You went emo didn't you?" ___ "I didn't go /emo/. We had a lovely intellectual conversation about furniture." Vicious remembered the night before, the drunken dog beginning to lift. "...and also about my father. /Shit./ I did go emo. I went /way/ emo."

I hope Leezie ends up having a point as a character. This is just an odd book and should be a super fast read but it's been a tough one when I have no energy

Figured it out - I struggle with novels that kind of require you to be a visualizing reader, and I am quite not that kind of reader

This is such a strange book...I know that it's middle-grade, but what kid wants to read this? Nothing is happening? I am generally confused, every time I pick this back up I have to go back a few pages because I'm just like ???

HOLY CRAP the words are huge in this, is this for really young kids and I didn't know

Oh boy, the quotation marks are misaligned throughout the whole of this, that's going to be distracting

Plz I need this volume to make me give a hoot about Safu, the other characters in this have been rather fleshed out and she...just hasn't been

Restarted this because I remembered nothing and wanted to give it proper attention (rather than sweating in a waiting room with broken AC)

Declan and Adam would make a scarily effective team at whatever they put their minds to.

Gonna finish my reread before the year ends hahaha. I have a note on my phone from my first read titled "we're all Declan stans now" and man, MOOD

It's going to take me half the book to not be distracted by the noses again, isn't it.

This is possibly spoilery...................but this reminds me of the fact that one of the most scarring thing I've seen on the internet is the larvae boob manip, it still occasionally haunts my dreams and waking hours (and I've been loose on the internet for a whole adult at this point and larvae boob was one of the earlier nasties)

I probably should have expected some gore based just on the title but man, some of this is pretty gross (and I'm pretty hard to gross because I'm not a terribly visualizing reader)

I hope I'm mistaken and the "it will turn out to be a big miscommunication" vibes I'm getting are just me being cranky

There's a lot of talk of murder in a way that is somehow boring so far. I've been reading while exhausted again though, might be a "me" problem