I read this book for the first time as a beta and I believe my children thought I was nuts. I laughed so hard that I was in tears a few times. I recently reread this book after its release and found it just as entertaining and well written. I had a bit of trouble getting into the "back and forth, past to present" bit, but that was largely because I'd been reading a whole lot of 3rd person POV and writing the same at the time I beta read this... the second time, I had no trouble and thoroughly enjoyed it both times.

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