hann_cant_read's reviews
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This was such an interesting read.
The format was unique to a lot of other first person stories, with a narrator speaking directly to the audience. It was an easy way to have different backstories / world building filled in, in a way that immersed me into the story instead of removing me.

I really loved the tone of the narrator as well, which I think had a lot to do with my enjoyment. This is a gothic sci-fi horror, but it was laced with humor and wit in a way that balanced and didn't detract from the seriousness and overall creepiness of the plot.

Initially, some of the world building did feel kind of random and a little info dumpy at times. I do understand that while this is a single re-telling there are multiple books and they need some sort of established through line, but there were moments where I wasn't sure what I was being told actually had to do with the plot. 

Overall, it was a very quick, very immersive read, and I'll definitely read more T. Kingfisher.

Ran out of time on my libby hold, but bought the physical copy to finish instead.

The final straw for me was when Dax Facetimed Gemma on her Samsung phone, but there were so many inconsistencies throughout this I was going insane. Which is a shame because it's such a cute premise.

Dax thought she was a stalker who broke into his store and knows intimate details about him (including where his sister works) in the beginning but then NONE of her behavior is suspicious to him after he thinks she’s cute, even though she just shows up at the bar he frequents and really wants to join his super random curling team?

Once we get past that, Dax knows NOTHING about her in this timeline except she’s reluctant to date him, keeps putting a halt on the flirting, but instead of reading the signs he won’t stop until she talks to another dude and he's salty about it?
He says he and Sunny only talk at curling and aren’t close then why do they have a secret handshake and why was HE the one giving her a ride home and why is HE the one she’s texting that she got to work safely?
Why would the super random friends/strangers of Gemma's invite Dax to their wedding?!?! They have never met him and for all intents and purposes this is their first date and they aren’t even that close to Gemma so it's weird enough they're inviting her when they just saw her randomly out one night.

I don’t understand why Elliot looked familiar / looked like Stuart. That was never explained im very confused.
Sex positive does not mean you talk about your hookup the night before in front of your six year old.
Kiersten went from “Trent is my best friend” to that man bought me a mop as an anniversary present in literally one chapter. Zero consistency.
She doesn’t put a lot of weight into the act of sex, but had a sex DREAM about him once and tensions were weird for weeks? And couldn't hook up with AU Dax because it might be weird with OU Dax? Make it make sense.
But literally, when her having a Samsung phone was a key point in her realizing she was in an alternate universe, you think they would remember he can't Facetime her.

Cardan is baby girl, and I will never get enough of Jude's little gay husband.