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Quite a bit of purple writing, that’s not a complete turn off but could have been dialed back to deliver the message more clearly. There was also a section on whale baleen in corsets and the ‘woes of women in constructing garments’ which has been proven an exaggeration by many a historian and those today who wear corsets. Makes you wonder how much of the rest of the book is dramatized/poorly researched.

He confuses Janice with Jenna at the end scene in fact he doesn’t even mention Janice in the “hall of horrors”

Where did the gun come from? I can’t make sense of what happens scene to scene as events seem to happen without explanation. He goes into exquisite detail over the most mundane unimportant shit, but he cannot write out how Mel acquired a gun?

It’s almost over 🥹

I thought stace was the final girl? Now it’s deek? This author needs an editor asap

Someone who’s stronger than me needs to count how many times the author mentions that it’s 1989.

I’m almost positive how his dad dies changes in the book. I’m not sure if he couldn’t keep it straight but the first iteration his dad was cresting a blind hill and he gets hit by a car that’s driving in both lanes. The second story told 100 pages later is he’s passing a tractor and he gets hit. I guess both could happen at the same time if you’re dumb enough to pass someone on a blind hill.

This is hard to follow, the writing feels so juvenile and clunky. The similes, metaphors, and imagery don’t make sense/are not relatable and they are also unfinished in some bizarre cases. And the underlining, dashes, ellipses, asterisks, questions marks are so numerous it makes your head spin. It’s like my eyes are hitting brick walls

Just fantastic and hilarious

I’m beginning to wonder what the point is. There is no real conflict here and a meandering plot. I have loved parts and hated parts. It’s a story about people and relationships with a barely present magic school in the background, more school than magic. He’s also just out right comparing his book to parts of Harry Potter which I just find obnoxious.

Why do all the protagonists of books like these sound and act the same. Half way through, she about to get answers from Sam, and she turns into a petulant brat. Can you maybe act like an adult for five minutes. I mean she’s a doctor, she should have plenty of practice holding her temper. All of this is to just add fluff and drag out an unoriginal story that has no justification to be 300 pages long

Who shows up to their parent’s doctor’s appointment in their pilots uniform? You got a plane to fly in an hour? Too bad, your mom’s doc is behind 30 minutes due to a long winded patient.

I’m reading this book under duress.

This is… Encanto??

AHHHHHHHH

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