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i can’t believe mckay fumbled that confrontation so badly. how do you have 90% of a book leading up to an altercation where the MC admits she should be violent and instead she just pats herself on the back for scaring him. beat! his! ass!

SEVEN YEAR TIME SKIP WITH 20% LEFT IN THE BOOK ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND

this is crazy. journalism is saying ‘let’s let our imagination fill in the rest’ for key parts of the story and then interviewing someone who passingly met the victim when he was also just nine years old, seventy years ago

the author does NOT have enough content to write this book. why am i hearing about three more unrelated cases that impact neither sally horner nor nabokov. we’re just true crime podcasting at this point

jumpscare! evil creature in characters dream has name similar to mine

how do people miss that tbis is a book about media consumption driving body image. a dove literally flies into a woman’s mouth in a tv ad for an edible body cream

the mc being like aw man what could i have reported to the school?? she was just being a little weird nothing serious :/ meanwhile mona would stand stock still in the hallway terrified of going in her room and had her belongings stolen and disfigured. men are so stupid

first kiss at 52%! give it up for first kiss at 52%!

THEY PUT HER IN A COMA OFF-PAGE??

good lord the immediate perspective change with no buffer was crazy. how are we going from erin leaving a house to tonya’s thanksgiving

i’m surprised everyone rates this book so highly. i’m sick of hearing about the black trans defendant just being entirely ignored by the author (or, when she’s on the page, it’s almost exclusively to hype up the white lawyer in terribly written aave). meanwhile the white lawyer is like man what if the guy i like doesn’t like me. lady your client is being sexually harassed in prison

STILL NO REVEAL? GIRL

dude there is only so long that you can hold this suspense. just tell me

abdjfksd the book should end in about an hour. however i haven’t even hit 50%

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this is like some of the worst dialogue i’ve ever listened to 😭

i’m just so fascinated by how 2010 it is. talking about your heart as a muscle, your bitch of a mother and how you’re nothing like her, cuteness aggression

it’s crazy how the author knows like abjectly feminist things to say, the book keeps being like okay but actually Her Father is the most important thing and This One Male Gardener. the female clique cult barely has a personality. oh also very obvious the author took the secret history’s preoccupation w greek mythology and sloppily grafted it onto buddhism?? which just comes off as orientalist

let’s not forget. the orientalism

fascinating. it’s been years since i’ve read such an obvious cash grab based off of 2010s tumblr quote posts slopped together with a vague idea of what the secret history was

i suppose i shall call it now. he’s kissing his long lost sister ain’t he.

woah! jump scare there’s a naima in this book and it’s pronounced the same way

man i usually love piper’s work but this one is just bloated with prose. just tell me what’s happening without a metaphor or simile please