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jojo

jojoeffe@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Former avid reader trying to get out of the habit of doomscrolling and back into books.

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25% complete! jojo has read 10 of 40 books.

The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt 5 stars

I met my husband on the same day I committed my very last murder. There's …

Compelling and engaging

5 stars

This is a well-written book, and entirely gripping. By turns funny, tender, and brutal, I literally could not put it down until I was done. The author nails the main and supporting characters (I recognise the people who populate the Dandenong Ranges) without veering into stereotype. I remember hooning around the Dandenongs on the pillion of a guy who grew up in The Basin, which leads a certain cinematic quality to my imagining of one of the book's key sequences. It's deftly done and not at all cringe. I do love the nod to a familiar handyman franchise which is renamed but recognisable.

Although she's definitely a morally questionable person, Olivia is smart, funny, tortured, and I like her. I understand how she feels about her family and her kids. The villains are not cartoonish, and I've hung out near some of them in the dodgier pubs in Melbourne. I'm …