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Sarah Marquez
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I had a ton of questions reading through this novel but I loved it. I think it was a great mental exercise and a reminder that the main character wasn’t always a reliable narrator. I had no idea where this was going in the final chapter but the open-ended ambiguous ending of it honestly made a lot of sense to me.
— Jan 01, 2026 06:34AM
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Sarah Marquez
is on page 218 of 288
Honestly got a good scare from the part where Esther goes to DeeDee’s room for the sheet music. I guess reading it at 2:30am didn’t help. But I was bracing myself for something creepy to happen.
— Dec 28, 2025 11:34PM
Sarah Marquez
is on page 116 of 288
So far the book almost reads like journal entries to me. Snippets of Esther’s encounters and experiences, no real passage of time in between each experience, per se. I think the mention of those spies getting executed was a cool way to pin point the time period of the novel. Esther is a little weird, self-absorbed, and immature… but I can see she’s trying to get by in a world she doesn’t understand yet.
— Dec 21, 2025 09:12PM
Sarah Marquez
is on page 40 of 288
Esther is an interesting little character so… very self-absorbed yet somehow insecure.
— Dec 09, 2025 05:43PM
Sarah Marquez
is on page 27 of 288
Finally started this classic that’s been long-overdue sitting on my shelf after Matt Haig referenced it in The Midnight Library. Read up on Sylvia Plath again to refresh my memory and thought this was an interesting book to have made an appearance in The Midnight Library. Definitely not a coincidence by any means.
— Dec 07, 2025 06:51PM
