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as always, Roxane Gay's writing is incredible. i admire her vulnerability, even though she makes it clear it is a difficult, anxiety-inducing thing for her to do. i much preferred the first 90%ish of this essay versus the last bit that was focused on COVID & Trump, but still really enjoyed listening to this!
loved this at first- the serial killer aspect, the 90s setting, the movie references, how anxiety inducing it was - but the plot twists.. womp womp. also not a fan of the hallucinations. this could have gone in such a cool, more horror direction, which is kind of what I was expecting after Home Before Dark, but alas it did not.
first 75% of the book was 5 stars, remaining 25% was probably a 2.
not 100% sure how to rate this.. thinking a 2.5?
I went into this expecting a sexy, smutty romance but that was not exactly what I got. I enjoyed/was intrigued by both of the plot lines happening but the quick switches between what is basically porn and descriptions of a woman being held as a sex slave were jarring and felt super weird to read.
