I just read this book earlier this week and was terribly excited to learn that The Peripheral had a sequel. Then I read it and thought, wait, what was that about again? Two days later I had to think really hard to remember the main character’s name and how it ended.

Like the “Do not use while sleeping” tag on the hair dryer I had as a teen.

This is my #2 favorite book, and I also gravitate toward re-reading favorites when life is stressful. Everything about the writing seems so natural - I recall telling a friend that The Wedding Bash chapter was like attending a family wedding as it (to me at least) captured just how people behave and talk at a wedding or big family event, and I consider the passage in the labyrinth one of the most beautifully written scenes ever.

I’m also just a few years younger than the Holly character, and the last episode makes me wonder about the future and hope that it will be less bleak.

She’s a great author but I agree, not as popular or widely known as I feel she should be.

It’s one of them for sure. Well, according to me. I didn’t like Tommyknockers or Under the Dome either. I sense a theme here.