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All this shit with her brother wanting to fuck her is just annoying. It's not tragic or creepy like a VC Andrews incest plot line SHOULD be. It's at best kinda icky.

Ok, I know some crazy bullshit is happening to Rain, so it is not entirely untrue that she might have been better off in the projects than where she is, but Roy doesn't yet know that. He is saying that because her room is small. It seems insane to say that she'd be better off two doors down from the guys that killed her sister because her room is small.

Do you think Neiderman realizes that the girl he wrote to be smart comes off quite stupid?

I swear to god, NOTHING affects this girl for more than 8 seconds. She just found out her coworker was impregnated by their boss who forced her to do creepy age play of his dead daughter, and that same boss is now forcing her to play act as his dead daughter and tonguing her. And she's like, "I'm such a silly worry wart 🤪 Time to go audition for the play! I'm going to have fun 😊"

"Wasn't that the same dream Boggs had for Mary Margaret" sure but what you're forgetting is that your mother did not force you to do creepy age play with the man who employed you both so that you would get pregnant.
Like there WERE other options here. And Mrs. Chester said she was making decent money, so how the hell is Boggs not making decent money if he's above her?

"Give him the same moment of pause you'd give a struggling man back home." None? None at all? Why are we acting like Rain was so kind and empathetic to the others in the projects? Not that she SHOULD give a moment of pause to someone selling his daughter. I'm just saying. Pointing out that Boggs is like the men back home doesn't make sense here because she never had a kind word for them.

Fucking A, was the entire first book just dumb bullshit? I can't even call it exposition for this book, because almost nothing that happened in the last book is relevant to this one. He shouldn't have written it; he should have just jumped straight to this one. THIS is what I'm talking about! We're in "bad, but enjoyable" territory!

See we're getting the creepy depravity that the last book lacked. I'm into it. But the thing stopping me from being really into it is that literally all she has to do is call up granny and say please pay for me to live in the dorms your BIL is a freak. She would do it so fast and Rain knows that.

IDK if it's Rain suddenly lauding America is the greatest country on earth and acting mad that other countries have different customs, the fact that some of her comebacks make no sense and are response to something that wasn't an insult, the fact that she's way too hard on her parents, or the fact that more time is spent on the pettiness than on the actual creepiness, but I'm starting to enjoy her new spine less.

Ok, am I really expected to believe that the rich English woman who regularly attends plays somehow has never heard "all the world's a stage?" *Mean Girls voice* everybody in the English speaking world knows that quote.