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got into this right as it was due back and airplane mode bought me only so much time, unfortunately

I really can’t stand this lol

These characters are kind of insufferable (which I gather they're meant to be) but then so is the prose. I'm just having trouble picking books I'm not annoyed by lately *sigh*

definitely did not realize this was this long when i picked it up

So impressed by the writing - “you’re supposed to be Penelope” wowowow

I feel like I’m betting on a higher stakes season of The Bachelorette, and I hate that my predictions feel so much shakier when it comes to fiction 😩

Safe to say I hate this

This is just so joyless

I should probably start reading synopses more closely

I love how specific the voice of young Afaf is

The way my extensive franchise knowledge has had me predicting (correctly) every elimination, every twist...don’t know whether to be ashamed or proud.

Okay this is growing on me. Especially the candid conversations about the lies we believe about ourselves and the kind of love we think we deserve. I keep thinking this would actually make a riveting season of The Bachelorette with all the faux therapizing the show loves to do. And Asher x Bea totally give me a Pride and Prejudice vibe

Not to be an ABC shill but there’s absolutely no way the Bachelor/ette producers would be explicitly tell their leads what to do. Where’s the nudging? Where’s the manipulating people into thinking decisions are their own?

It’s so funny to me that Eli is written as sympathetic/ the mythical African man considering...everything. Also are we getting to a plot soon?