I love love love this. You have such a great way of flirting back and forth in a timeline and making it work to build atmosphere and suspense. I love the way you describe Emily, as a stranger, from JJ’s POV. The experience on a whole. This part got me good: “Something about it all reminded her of cracking the spine of a dusty leather bound book at the creaky-floored used bookstore next to her apartment. The warm scent of old paper, comforting and familiar.”
And I think you did a great job of capturing the exact type of friendship between JJ and Derek and Penelope. The way you write their banter is perfect.
As always, thank you so much for your thoughtful and wonderful comments! And I hadn’t realized that it took so long for me to reply (as you’re aware I was going through some stuff).
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