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This novel is a ridiculously fast read; I read it in one day! I haven't read a (non-audio) novel in one day in forever; it might normally take me days, a week or even longer to get through over 200 pages and here I've done it in hours.
I really enjoyed the book. I loved the setting and the literary references... who would've thought that the lit club would read a book with Stephen King, and not as an author but as a character, lol. Then there's also the talking Proust and all the others.
The book does get a little wild by the end and most everything still comes together, but I have one lingering (very spoilery) question I can't find any answer to. So Fabienne, excuse me Marie, wrote the book predicting these four deaths, and then they happen. So Vlad killed the first three, but it was completely unrelated since it was a drug deal situation gone sour. And then the last, Pierre, just ups and dies of a heart attack at the end. Yet, all their deaths were exactly as described in Sugar Flowers. How?
Is it insinuated that someone - Marie? Fabienne? who? - actually did set this all up somehow and we're supposed to gather that? Or is it simply supposed to all be completely coincidental/otherworldly interference by the dead Fabienne?
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