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Weird to have the fight for lgbtq rights only mentioned in the end. Again feels weak when it didn't inform the meat of the story

Sending the ashes away and wondering if Nainai and Ellery reunited in the after life would've been elegant. But noooo you had to give a cheesy dream vision of their heaven meet up. A smudge on an otherwise sentimental ending.

Use it to buy your freedom is a dystopian thing to say haha

Saying you earned a spot on Forbes as if people on Forbes didn't just either buy their way in or know someone to get in. That ain't a flex.

Unlike her mom, Magnolia gets a lot of patients for her counseling clinic. Can we get a mention of a generational difference or something because I thought women in this country don't support other women

The only response to Ellery proposing a lavender marriage situation is Parker's too traditional. Not the massive wall that is Indo homophobia. This book will really beat you over the head with saying patriarchy, purity culture, heteronormativity, internalized misogyny, so why not that?

I get it, the themes and pathos are coming together so that patriarchy takes Magnolia away from Ellery one last time. But it still feels contrived to rob characters of confronting each other.

This whole thing feels forced to rob the characters of agency in confronting each other. Undercutting the plot from getting truly messy. Just toss in a disaster that prise away the 2 soulmates from each other. It doesn't feel like a tragedy. It's a cop out.

Why say you're bringing Hazel to a completely foreign place? She spent her infancy in Indonesia. Yeah she wouldn't remember it but she's still a baby now.

Once again explaining chindo culture to your chindo granddaughter. About emotional suppression.