Joshua Gross’s Reviews > The Impossible Fortune > Status Update

Ah, yes, here's the queer representation we've all been waiting for:

‘I’d play with you for a couple of weeks,’ says Davey. ‘Then I’d get bored, and I’d blame you, and I’d probably get someone to run you down in a car. Not kill you but give you something to remember me by. They say dating’s changed, but some things stay the same.’

I really don't think Osman has given us enough to care about Joanna for her to be in these books so much

‘Why try to kill Nick if you don’t know his code? Why plant a bomb under his car? If it was me, I’d kidnap him and then torture him.’

‘You used to be such an innocent woman, Joyce,’ says Ibrahim.

I feel like Richard Osman really wants me to invest in Bitcoin

There should be more of them actually being a normal Thursday murder club, kind of like Aurora Teagardens forgotten Real Murders club except I think Charlaine Harris remember that club more often

Ah, I see 'chosen family' is now mainstream and taken from the queers...

‘I’m afraid I’m buying a flapjack,’ says Joyce to Elizabeth. ‘And there’s nothing you can do to stop me.’ Joyce knows how to prioritize

I was already thinking this was a strangely personal conversation between Ibrahim and Joanna, esp considering they barely know each other, but then Ibrahim confides in her about his past in a way he hasn't done with anyone else, while dancing to a Madonna song with her at her wedding...