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Marketed as "for fans of Sally Rooney," yet fell short. I think what Rooney does so well is portray characters who think and speak like real people, full of good and bad, ennui and yearning. The characters in this book felt like caricatures, where their main secrets and sources of conflict boiled down to surface-level identities/markers--being queer, poor, sick.
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Well-written, satisfying. Doesn't add much new to the crime fiction genre, but as a fan of these stories, I enjoyed it. This book tries to make a statement about our justice system, but rather than pushing forward with real intent/clarity, leaves its conclusions more vague than powerful.
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Reading them linearly feels painful to me in a way I can't describe. It feels as if the book will never end. It's not exactly hard to see the progress as usual, but I feel like I'm starting something and ending something over and over again, which brings about this feeling of desperation in me. My brain immediately wants to be done with the book entirely after finishing a story, but there's still more shorts to go. But then again, skipping around the book is not perfect either. I end up feeling extremely disorganised. Randomly opening up a story, reading it and then randomly picking up another irks something in me that wants to see the stories finished like dominoes, one at a time. It's hard enough being spontaneous to read a short story collection in the first place, you know I usually do end up skipping around the book regardless, and reading alongside another book to make the whole thing feel like a side quest. But I would love to know how you tackle anthologies on your own. Also, any good recommendations? So far, I've been reading from authors I'm obsessed with and haven't ventured to anthologies from a collection of authors.
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Not knowing anything about this book going in, was getting very worried with the initial chapters fully centering/glorifying Ansel's perspective (which is such an issue with true crime media/literature), but now starting to get hopeful this will not be the case? I know the blurb talks about focusing on the women who were impacted, but it hasn't delivered on this yet...
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urgghhhh... it blended my read and tbr shelves together.... ::sobbing::
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