Thank you to the author for the free audiobook + to Steph for gifting me a signed physical copy!!

One of the highest compliments I can give a book is that I set it down multiple times because I didn’t want it to end. That’s exactly what happened with this one, and I actually had to force myself to get to the end because, as it happens with most of my favorite media, I could’ve stopped around 75% forever and pretended the book didn’t end at all. I loved how Samantha Allen’s voice came through so clearly here despite how different this book is from her other novel and her non-fiction work. She writes with so much charm and her characters here felt SO human (even the ghost) that it hurt to say goodbye to them. The foreword in my edition of the book talks about some of the inspo Samantha took for the character of Roland but I still liked making up my own headcanon of who he would be an amalgamation of in our own Hollywood landscape. My one liner review for Patricia Wants to Cuddle was “this is the perfect Mari book” and tbh the same goes for this one. It felt like it was written with all of my silly little interests in mind and for that I’m eternally grateful.