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2025 rr// 5 🌟 still :) 4.5/5stars I didn't stop giving hand jobs because I wasn't good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I was the best at it. This is hands down of the best first lines of a book I have read in literally forever. I had no idea this novella existed, even tho I LOVE GILLIAN FLYNN and her writing style, yeah I was probably living under a rock. But then I saw it on booktube and I HAD TO READ IT. I thought short stories/novellas aren't for me but now I have come to realize I just wasn't reading the right ones. I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever. This book has everything I want in my perfect book: a good sense of humor, complex layering and mystery going on, the jump between thriller and supernatural(you're constantly trying to figure out if it's horror/supernatural or is a mystery thriller and in the best way possible it keeps you glued) and last but not the least: an open ending. I know most people do not like that in their books but when done properly I AM SUCKER FOR IT. This book is perfect in every which way and I am all the more in love with the author because she was able to do all of this in just under 70 pages!!! I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life. HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!! JUST READ IT. WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS BOOK EARLIER??? I'm definitely buying my own copy of this as soon as possible, I LOVE IT SO MUCH! Would I love a full blown story out of this? An expanded version? HELL YES PLEASE!! But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.