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Not to mention how senselessly over the top this book tries to be with what Henry goes through. Any excuse to wave a foam finger at his misery. Getting beat up by his abusive brother whose actions are excused by the author, Jesse’s suicide (which Jesse is blamed for??), getting beat up in the school bathroom and his picture of it going viral, the incident at the Apple Store, almost being raped, etc etc and for what

Holy cornball. Of course this book would make a rape attempt an excuse to show how badass the love interest and how weak Henry is. I’m sick of the amount of needless violence in this book that is used for nothing but perpetual angst and to give characters a reason to protect Henry from everything. Not once in this whole book did Henry fight his own battles, always someone doing it for him over and over and over

Diego hid nothing from Henry. His past is nothing for Henry to know and, as you saw, him trauma dumping abt it on their Christmas Eve dinner didn’t do shit. I’m so sick of Henry being written like we’re supposed to empathize with him when in actuality he is finding any reason from anybody to be hurt by them to excuse his own actions and mentality. Is he supposed to grow? Bc 400 pages in he’s still the same??

He’s an angry drunk that just beat the shit out of you. What do you mean you think he would’ve been a good dad? He told everyone that you were being abducted and your life has been terrible since? I’m so confused why is he acting like Charlie has nuance when he’s been nothing but a pos that had a moment of clarity bc he thought he was gonna be a dad

Have they grown at all? Why is this book so long

Don’t understand the the logic behind fatherhood making Charlie a better person, but making it so that Henry has to work on himself before he can be better because a relationship can’t fix him. What the hell is the author even trying to say anymore

Another sciencey dead-pan metaphor to explain Henry’s current state of life. Rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat every chapter

Turn every time the author mentions pee in this book into a drinking game and it might kill you. I think he has a piss kink or something

They have the same conversations every chapter just with different words. The author makes the same three points every chapter with different words and edgy metaphors

It’s like a gacha life video. Who trauma dumps to their situationship’s family over dinner on Christmas Eve. I think the author snuck into earth or has genuinely never met another human being