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I was trying to listen to this as an audiobook but I had to abandon it because the author couldn’t seem to use any other word to describe the characters’ speech except “said.”
Gets old really fast when the entire dialogue is “what?” I said.
“Blah de blah.” She said
“Oh.” I said.
“Blah de blah blah” she said.

For goodness’ sake get a thesaurus!