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Shrieking at the email reveal. And how the chapter ends without us getting Thomas' reaction! This is how you build tension, how you write a novel. Thinking: Thomas sees himself often as happily without free will - he's a star in orbit, following his course (but convinced, desperately convinced, that he IS orbiting, not adrift never to return...) vs. how Dimi saw himself as unhappily taken by river currents.
— Mar 16, 2026 08:35PM
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ohhh Grace. I can't believe you did that. I understand why you did that! This book, in the best way, feels almost Victorian for all it's set in modern day - and Biblical without a bit of it being preachy. You have to go slow, you have to savor.
— Mar 16, 2026 06:41PM
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What a vibrant, gasping depiction of sudden love - love at first sight is so often done so poorly, but that's how you write it so it matters. Also: "Do you think you lose your faith, because your faith does not want you? That would be easy! My life would have been a happier one!" I love all the ! in his speech and how he's giddy as he says it - to a mysterious dead woman in an old photo who clambers out of the frame!
— Feb 26, 2026 08:25PM
