i LOVE the koubek brothers, even tho they are both jerks. both in their each special ways! i especially cannot hate them for having complicated relationship with one another — as that's where others usually talk about the dislike of one of the brothers, as far as i saw — because i myself have siblings and it wasn't always so easy — that's where i am reading and am like 'wow thank to GOD this is not us anymore.' it makes you appreciate that your life is not as miserable as you previously thought so. 

NOW, i would appreciate if the book would be more focused on the grief and alienation of the melancholy that lingers in you when you lose someone close to you. i would truly need that right now, for personal reasons. 

EVEN THOUGH, my rating seems low for how much i babbled about it, it simply is because the last 7 chapters weren't easy to bite through (either the fault is on my side or on the writing style or it's actually both me for two different reasons), so i skim read it (which i do rarely), and i skim read it quickly enough to not even annotate it. 
with that in mind, i might come back to those last seven chapters one day — i want to — and will properly annotate the last chapters. 

i still love it. like a lot. a lot lot.


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