Yep a bit of a slay. I thought it was so good how you really cant separate the metaphor from reality till like the very end, and even not then? Also this would go so hard as a movie. Maybe with Justin Lin as director I think that would be fire

when:
-is it my turn to be happy?
-is the hit netflix adaptation coming out?

I mean i liked it but i don't really see what the point was at all, though the stories themselves were so atmospheric and interesting

There's crumbs of really good stuff here but they're just crumbs. The name of that crumb is Daniel & his relationship with his dad bc that shit was soo good. The rest of the characters? Boring, & their voices were wayy too similar to each other to the point where at the beginning I'd be flipping back to see who's chapter it was. The heists? SO horribly planned and not thrilling or heisty. How are you gonna market your book as a HEIST NOVEL and then the heists are "we will run in, break the glass, get our stuff, and run out." like bro PLEASE?? and finally the writing? so repetitive. if i have to read another "it went like this: [a character's adjectivey noun], [a plural noun], [a different noun and maybe another adjective to come with it]" i'm gonna explode. I'm just so disappointed bc I preordered this too :(

Though I think thats literally just bc i had to start & stop because so many Distressing things happened during the 6 months I spread this book over. So like ofc emotional things weren't that impactful, it's bc i wasn't as invested anymore! but a slay anyway bc i want to read the sequel

such a slay i think. classics retellings from a woman's pov is suuuch an elite genre

no real reason tbh, i read this for class and the story just didn't grip me enough to finish it now that the semester's over

when is it my turn to be happy