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How ironic to come across these lines roughly 50 pages into this buzzy new novel:

"It can be hard to separate how we feel about people from how we feel about what they make. That's why Veronica said she'd been burned one too many times by blurbs heralding books as unputdownable when she'd found them to be, in fact, quite putdownable."

The irony here being that I'd checked this book out from the library on the strength of the names associated with blurbs on its back cover—names that included authors whose work I love (Emma Straub, Claire Dederer, Isaac Fitzgerald) and, therefore, thought I could trust.

Wow was I wrong, as this is my first DNF of 2025. Quite putdownable, indeed!