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so this is actually brilliant
so immersive and soothing

omfg Akwaeke Emezi pkease come pick my heart and soul up they’re all yours 😭
Honestly every single sentence is hitting HARD and knowing this is kidlit just makes me the happiest, thank you for writing so well and so much truth for the children

acknowledging how important this book is and how fundametnal it is for teenagers to have such a book, but it feels too young for me. Like I'm not really interested by all the details of Starr's everyday life, I assume they could make her very relatable to a younger audience, but as an adult I'm really not invested in the lil family interections -although they're cute (and i'm so over the numerous HP references)

:T a bit mid honestly

really enjoying this, although i was fucking scared for that spider

I think I love it. It's slow and reflective, the atmosphere is weird, uncomfortable, the characters seem to never listen to one another, the things Mariko says are spending chills down my spine, yet there are some sparks of coziness such as the conversation between Etsuko and her father-in-law

really smooth writing, the dialogs are super natural

Beurk, le malaise dès les premières lignes, mais en même temps je sais que je vais pas avoir envie de le lâcher

I wasn't expecting that tone at all hahaha

>:(

Thr vignettes about random guests are so cute?? Happy for Bobby and Caroline kek

TRASH MAN

Thank GOD sci-fi male writers always take the time to mention women's boobs, I don't know what we -as a society- would do without them 🙏

;; ❤️ bless her heart

I've just read the afterword 💀 My god, why would you put that in a book? It's just a guy being delusional about his bestie, and not in a cute way, think megalomaniac and white-manish

Que 💀💀💀

It's just like Cyberpunk edgerunner 😩💕 :
Great potential ruined by awful writing, an incredible incapacity to write an original plot and a hypersexualisation of women I hadn't witnessed in a while 😋 (it's literally the tiktok trend "written by a man", Mr Gibson, women do not, in fact, play with their nipples in public h24 💀)

The pace is off, the writing is not fantastic, but the plit could be fun?

i am confusion
but like in a delightful way

It's getting better, and better, and better !!!
So mesmerising, it's hard to put it down!!!

Actually super cathartic

Still fun and interesting and emotional, good balance, easy read

👁️👁️

I deeply enjoy the balance between factual infos on how death is handled on a legal/professional level and the snarky humour

Fully deserves the hype. The writing is really really good, I hate not having a pen to underline stuff. The narration is also delightful, very immersive and it plays so well with Samantha's characterisation. I'm also far from disappointed by the atmosphere, unsettling yet realistic. We can feel the spook lurking and slowly, oh so slowly crawling towards us, I'm genuinely SO excited by this read!