i am sold twice over

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As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann. Totally enthralled by this. It was ~600 pages and I read it in less than 4 days kind of enthralled. Extremely well written and gut-wrenching historical fiction set in 1600s England. Tortured, obsessive, unreliable narrator POV character Jacob has an okay life until he burns it to the fucking ground and then he does it all over again, like holy fuck. Described as 'erotic', which is very true, but manages to do it without being explicit. I am wrecked by the fact that Ferris has the same first name as the boy Jacob killed that started the whole spiral and also that Jacob and Ferris's wife Joanna shared the same initials and they're inscribed on the wedding ring with the same year Ferris and Jacob met. Were Ferris and Caro actually having an affair? Is Jane even Caro? What really happened with Jacob and Zeb? Is Izzy okay?? I will be thinking about this one. (So many trigger warnings. Be fully prepared if you consider reading this book.)

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Watched another short series Agatha Christie adaptation Why Didn't They Ask Evans? This one definitely did not telegraph the twists like Seven Dials but almost to the opposite point where I'm like wait, did all the pieces fit together?