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I just feel like something bad is going to happen, and I truly don’t want anything bad to happen.

I hate that he couldn’t tell her.
I hate that this book is third person.
It would’ve been so great duo pov.

“That was the first moment he’d felt overcome with an inexplicable feeling in her presence, like a bolt of lightning had zapped him directly in the chest. Immediately, he’d thought, Who is she? How can I get to know her?”

That’s so wild. Cause that’s the Lily you ghosted.

“I baked every pie: apple cinnamon, pumpkin and sweet potato.”

Ummm… pumpkin?

So many emails… I would’ve exchanged numbers by now. It’s cute, oddly enough.

“her older sisters, Violet and Iris”

Why do they all have flower names?

You know… I don’t know how feel about these books so far.

Umm… what?

Miscommunication on her part.

I am just truly not a novella girl.

“Back in college, it was exactly three braids in my hair for every single soccer game (plus two coats of L’Oréal mascara if we were playing away) and I had to listen to “Dancing Queen” and “My Immortal” before each and every final—strictly in that order.”

I bought the Evanescence “Fallen” 20th anniversary vinyl today. So this was cute.

If this book would’ve ended at the end of Chapter 26, with the line “Prove it,” it would’ve still been a great little book.

Let’s see what the rest of the book is talking about.

“I just—I think, for now, I need you to give me aggressively straightforward statements of intent. Constantly. Otherwise, I’ll run circles in my head trying to interpret things.”

“My stomach sinks like a rock. Maybe I’ve made Nina into my whore best friend, playing right into the stereotype of the sexually liberated bisexual Latina, but I’ve done worse with Harper. I’ve made her the cynical, strong, hardworking friend, and I’ve ignored that she too had everything blow up in her face at the party.”

Not gonna lie, I love that this author includes this realization.

So cuuuuuuute. Even though I truly dislike a communication trope.

Nooooooo she’s a virgin? This book has taken a terrible turn.

“I wish, in this moment, that I was more of a writer than a reader. I wish I knew how to steer a plot and how to make things happen the way I want them to. Reading is so much fun, but I’m tired of feeling like all the best parts of my life have been lived inside my own head.”

Didn’t I say something like this earlier?

“So, I shove the book at Vincent and say, “Read the first stanza for me.”
It comes out more brusque and demanding than I meant it to, but he doesn’t even flinch. Vincent dutifully takes the book from my hand, flips it around, and starts to read the poem aloud.
I immediately regret asking.”

I’d swoon. I’d e completely unraveled and undone if a man read to me.

“And the whole time, the scrap of paper burns in my pocket.
Because it can only mean one thing: the story isn’t over.”

A reader wrote this book. A book lover wrote this book!!

“Harper puts on Pride & Prejudice, which she knows is my all-time favorite and she can’t stand. ”

Something about books mentioning Pride & Prejudice, or Jane Austen, makes me want to finish the book in one sitting.

Cause how can you be grumpy during a Tom Hanks movie?!

What on Earth happened to slow burn?! What is this?!

“So,” he says, “Thursdays and Sundays, you party.”
“Yep.”
“And on Fridays, you sit behind that front desk reading porn.”

Ate you up again, Kendall.

“I’ve always loved libraries after dark.”

Me too.

“Some didn’t like that one Black family owned so much.”

It’s giving Yellowstone.

…what is chapter 27?!

So Grant was livid in her basement? Sick. And she’s mad at X@bier for the cameras? I’ll never understand.

Well… safe to say they have chemistry.

“You would ruin me… with one taste. So, as much as I would love to set up an altar to that ass, self-preservation dictates I decline your offer.”

Buddy ate with that little monologue.

Hmmmmm Glad Xavier and his uncle are looking out for Maya. Wonder what Shay is up to.