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I now see where it went off the rails writing character wise. In the acknowledgments, it’s revealed that Cutter used r/Teenagers as a source to understand teens, what a misfire that is, using Reddit as a tool for anything helpful

Finally. Margaret mentioned it and we got a moment for it, The boys, while they may have been rich pricks and not kind, absolutely did not deserve what happened to them, and throughout the book, we are lead to believe they raped Charity, until we learn that wasn’t the case, and now, we know that even though they are fundamentally innocent and suffered because of Serena, the public still blames them for everything.

Cutter is doing something I like. So, I saw a familiar name, and thought, he’s doing another Carrie-like thing, that he also did in The Troop, and, to my surprise, this confirms that The Troop, Little Heaven, and The Queen all take place in the same universe on the same planet. As a matter of fact of fact, in this world, Chris Packer, the fictional journalist, has covered both The Troop and Little heavens events.

Okay, so that seems like the ‘conventional’ end of the story, I’ll admit, this feels a little too close to the ending of The Troop, they almost did the exact same thing. Maybe I’m speaking too soon, I’ve still got a little bit to go

Tony Soprano is back and were now all caught up

Heads in jello molds, that’s what’s happening, we’re in the nest.

Quite the complicated set of events have happened. Even with all the pheromone stuff I really thought what happened at burning van was against Charity’s will, but seems that wasn’t the case. Also, although I think these are some of his weakest characters so far, they are definitely his most morally complex ones

Damn, the obsession with fetty waps ‘Trap Queen’ on a JBL speaker needs to be studied. First on creepcast, now it’s a meme, and it’s in this book, I’ll never escape it