Welcome everyone to dolls of our lives. This is the show we're reliving the American

girls series book by book except here on Patreon where we're sort of doing whatever

we think fits in the world of the show. I'm Mary. I'm Allison. And we're very

excited to join you today to talk about Lavender House by Lev Rosen, which I

think Allison suggested. Do you suggest this for us? can't remember I did this came up on a list of new and strong

Y a thrillers and it came recommended for people who liked last night at the Telegraph Club, which we enjoyed about this time, you know, way back in our Patreon catalog.

If you had to pick between an endless loop of reading this book or listening to

lavender haze, which would you pick?

That's an interesting question. If we're saying the acoustic version of lavender he's on Spotify, I would pick that one because I prefer

to the album version. But, you know, I mean, this book would be up there. It's a tough choice. What about you?

This book is a thriller, which I very much enjoy.

I appreciated like different levels of nuance to it. I don't know if you found it scary. There were parts that could have been scarier for me but was this like high on the scary scale for you?

Yes, probably maybe in a different way for you. I think like, you know, for me as a queer person

reading this book, like there's some scenes of like violence against a queer person or

queer people and that's not really like I'm you know that's not super pleasant to read in the context of like 2023 but at the same so that's probably the scariest part of this for me was just like reading homophobic scenes but I don't know I also like in terms of like

genuine like thriller scarieness which I also love thrillers I I could handle it which is probably a sign it wasn't that scary. I would say not super scary. I would say it's kind of like Agatha Christie with a period piece like I think. Yes.

Not Ageth the level, but I think there's something interesting to and obviously we'll get into this

about choosing your protagonist to be a cop and yeah. The author chose to wrote this in or have it published in 2022 about a period of

1952 and so kind of this like pretty significant distance but obviously there's a lot of echoes and so I think we'll kind of get into this is part of a series because they're now calling this detective Andy Mills number one,

so that, you know, like in thriller speak

means we're getting more.

But before we talk about that, like there's

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