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I am a big fan of SVU & I‘m obsessed with everything NYC, so I was dismayed when the bizarre writing style Price employs here did nothing but make me cringe at the overwrought dialogue & jargon and wonder about his choice to alternately write out a paragraph-long sentence describing a woman's appearance, or an empty street, etc. and then leave out everything else. I detested meandering through the minds of shallow people I didn‘t care to follow.

I love this book. Not only a great mystery, but a phenomenal social novel with Manhattan's Lower East Side as its backdrop. A murder reveals a complicated urban landscape where characters from a variety of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds criss cross paths in gentrified NYC. #GONEBABYGONE

I thought this title might be a #thistitleequalsgreatbandname. I used Google to find that there was an English band named Lush that formed in the late 80s so maybe this title is a little too similar but liked it anyway. I also thought A Storm of Swords might be a good name for a heavy metal band while looking through my books. #marchintoreading

In my house, bath bombs totally count as #readingequipment . When I worked for Lush, I always had more bath bombs than you could share a stick at. Now that I no longer work there, my stash is more reasonable. Christmas was very kind to me as far as bath bombs. 😂 #readjanuary