25/03/2024
need a good book? Here’s one ☝🏼
⏰ I bought this book almost 18 months ago, which might not make a great start to a book review. But it’s the old “buying a book and reading a book are two separate events” thing. I heard of it and immediately knew I wanted to read it, I just didn’t want to read it RIGHT THEN.
💛 at the time I was in a fluffy beach read moment and SIGN HERE isn’t that. And then I forgot about it, and I discovered it again during another fluffy beach read moment and forgot about…and so it goes.
👌 This book takes places almost exclusively in 2 spots: the 5th floor of Hell and a lake house in New Hampshire. Yes that Hell. Yes it somehow works. And Claudia Lux’s Hell? It’s a thing of beauty. Straight from the book: “It’s music that’s too loud, food that’s too rubbery, and kissing with too much tongue”. Chefs kiss, perfection.
🔥 The cast of characters in Hell belong there, the ones at the lake house are rightfully on their way, and there you are somehow rooting for everyone and no one at the same time. .book.club first introduced me to this book and described it as Agatha Christie meets The Good Place. If you like either of those then you need to read this. And if, like me, you like both, then you’re going to love this.
Happy Reading
- E