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I guess I don’t understand why Hayden is so upset: as far as he knows, Ana doesn’t even know he’s trans, and as a trans kid himself, you’d think he’d assume Ana had something similar going on instead of jumping to conclusions. But kids are stupid, I suppose.

Why is this book making me read someone watching someone play a video game

This book is cute so far, but I will say that a Learn to Skate class went from week one: off-ice march to week two: backward skating is the silliest thing.

“The scars seem to grow with an X-Men-ish intensity”—the silliest phrasing I have ever seen.

Love to see a GT/BT reference—I was not expecting that.

What’s so strange about this book is the central relationship and characters themselves are underdeveloped, but we get so much information about the history and buildings. The author is infodumping lore on abandoned parts of campus, meanwhile I didn’t know Cal was missing an eye. Also, since when are there boys’ field hockey teams?

Why did this book let me get almost halfway through before revealing Cal has only one eye?

It’s really nice of Tony’s mom to invite the vampire kids to Christmas, even Greg, considering how she’s normally pretty mean.

The tone and narrative choice are both really discordant: one second he’s trying to sound like The Secret History, the next he’s saying “I walk to Brookleven in my tux (with bright white sneakers! Like BTS!”

This book is pretty bad so far, but I need something to read until my remaining Little Vampire arrives in the mail. They can’t all be The Secret History.

“You two—Nancy Drew and Drew Nancy—come with me.” That works, but there were a ton of good options: Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy, Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown, Nancy Drew and Nate the Great.

This is really cute

What in the world is this plot line where Anna and Rudolph thin Tony is jealous of what if Anna and Igno von Rant got together? She’s the equivalent of eleven or so and Igno is literally an adult dating their aunt.

Not a fan of the change in illustrator.

I think Tony is a worse friend than Rudolph.

Interesting how things names changed between the US and UK versions, particularLY Tony’s last name (Noodleman in the US and Peasbody in the UK). Can’t think of a single explanation for that, especially since the original language was German.