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bruh.

this book took me 20 days to read, and to be honest it felt like a whole lot longer.

this book - in my opinion - is very obviously a debut novel. it reads like the author has A LOT to say and wanted to put it all in a single book without killing any of his darlings or including any of the (potentially boring) stuff you need to have character development or a compelling plot. the characters went on constant tangents chock-full of pretentious language that people - even very smart people - do not use in (enjoyable) conversation with each other. the irrelevancy of said tangents to the characters� conversations made me think that the author wanted to pepper the book with his thoughts without integrating them organically or saving some for a follow-up novel (or twitter).

also - and this is just my personal preference - i don’t care for purple prose. for some reason i keep reading books written by poets and getting annoyed by constant similes that make no sense. kind of like how i read tons of short story collections then complain about how i hate short stories. i am the problem. but also similes are.

but also the cover? gorgeous. and don’t even get me STARTED on the spine. and also titles that end in exclamation points.