Later, I went to pick up dinner from the shwarma place my husband likes, although I did not exactly tell him that the reason he got his favorite dinner is that I’m just so, so happy he’s not dead.
The only really interesting source of tension is that two of the friends are so famous that their weekend escapades become internet sensations, while one of the friends is Instagramming her life in the hopes of gaining followers. This isn’t really explored, though. Too much of this book is the thirty-nine-year-old friends thinking of the Wise and Insightful things Bea always said to them back in college, to the point where I kind of hated Bea, and I was starting to expect a reveal in which Bea was still alive and just mindfucking with everybody. Actually, that would have been a lot better…. I made it to the end, but wished I hadn’t.
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