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sager's sheer stupidity is going to give me an aneurysm

holy shit riley sager could not be more fucking tone deaf

"All of them eye me with suspicion as I approach. A silent message telling me what I already know.
Just like at the Bartholomew, I do not belong here."
this sentence was not earnestly written about a woman, who currently is being paid to stay in a LUXURY PENTHOUSE IN THE BEST APARTMENTS IN NEW YORK, walking into a WOMAN'S SHELTER. YEA MAYBE YOU DON'T BELONG HOLY SHIT BE GRATEFUL

aaaaaaaaaaaaaand queue the info+trauma dump to a random side character

riley sager isn't actually explaining one of the most well known facts about one of the most well known paintings by one of the most well known painters like it's .... a revelation? when i find this man

this book is so fucking derivative. if riley sager ever has an original thought i will drop dead on the spot

"But people don’t imagine random, solitary screams."
I mean.. yea they definitely can. the brain is not a nice thing always. especially in the between waking and sleeping state, you can hear A LOT of shit that isn't real

"I think every family has at least one big tragedy.”
He’s wrong there.
Mine has two."
woah that's crazy because he said AT LEAST ONE YOU STUPID FUCKING IDIOT

i think the large part of the aggression i feel for sager is because i feel he *fundamentally* does not understand women and women adjacent people's points of view. and he ALWAYS writes from a woman's pov. it doesn't feel believable, because sager doesn't understand what the fuck he's talking about

i need every thriller writer to know, unless you are writing a fatal attraction, there should not be a romance subplot in the thriller ever. i mean this from the very core of me