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"I might have to kill somebody tonight."
Alrighty then...

Ughhh this is so wholesome. It kind of reminds me of Beverly Cleary in the sense that it’s written in the simple language of middle grade books but nearly every sentence packs an emotional punch. A nice reminder that “adult” novels don’t have to be gritty.

What is it with this genre and third person, present tense narration?

This is the kind of speculative fiction I can get behind!

The attempts at meta-ness are made even worse by how forced the Urdu naming of these characters is

I heard about the India-Pakistan border closing on This American Life. I feel so ‘cultured’ 😎

Something’s just clicked in the last 50 pages or so

reading middle grade again feels like coming home :)

Back on this

I can’t remember the last time a book grabbed me immediately the way this one did