Oh, hello, everyone.

This is 372 pages.

We'll never get back.

We enter laughing, as they say in the theater.

You'll never know what we were talking about before. Enter laughing, exit

pursued by a bear. That's just how we do it around these parts. Exuant omnis. All right,

this is the podcast where we talk about bad books. There's so much to celebrate in

this particular episode, is there not? Oh, there's the things we hoped would happen, happen,

and they happen in glorious fashion.

And there are needless plot twists.

There is kissing.

There is, to emphasize how needless these plot twists are that you will never see coming,

things that I never saw coming.

And at this point, in this book, you have to tip your cap.

Wait, there's kissing in this?

Let me look at my notes.

Oh, I guess there is some kissing.

You're right.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

Almost missed that.

So even though they do not necessarily serve the narrative, they are things that had they

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