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Oh sweet lord, this is creepy on a level that makes my skin want to crawl right off my body. And it was a slow-burn fantasy romance 20 pages ago!

If a certain possible plot thing happens, I stg I will pitch this book across the room.

Pausing here because the e-reader needs charging and thus I can't take it to work. Sarah needs a hug.

My cunning sense of plot (and the author’s lack of subtlety, which is fine because this is Spenser) strongly suggests that our villains are expys of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I hope Spenser holds them down while Mattie and Hawk take turns kicking their teeth in.

Yesssssss, library makeouts and trying to be quiet as someone comes noisily up the hall, yessssssss.

Oooof, this book has so many names dropped no one's going to have any left. Anyone ever tried to play Six Degrees of Christopher Plummer?

Well, that's unexpected. The text of the book skips suddenly, from page 190 to page 223. When actual page 233 is reached, it restarts. So pages 191-222 of text and annotations are nonexistent.

I can always pick up my copy of The Big Sleep and read the story pages I missed, but that's a major printer error. And I can't return this, I got it as a gift in 2019.

*As I sit reading, with a glass of scotch in one hand, feeling an odd urge for a cigarette despite having never smoked* This better not awaken anything in me.

Cool cool cool, milk dosed with formaldehyde so no one could smell it had gone bad, ethyl alcohol dyed brown with tobacco extract and labelled as whiskey, coffee made of chicory and ground-up nutshells and olive pits, and an illness called "grocer's itch" because sometimes the lice that got ground into the spices you were adulterating made it out alive. How have we as a species survived?

"Well, actually," drawled Driss, and Karina had never felt such a pointed desire to punch another person in her life,...

DO IT DO IT WHAT'S THE POINT OF BEING A PRINCESS IF YOU CAN'T PUNCH IDIOTS WHO DESERVE IT DO IT.