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The One with Swag
In this episode of Snitchin, Kristen and Brittany dive into the new season of Netflix's "Quarterback", Justin Bieber's new album, Scheana Shay's new memoir, and review the book "In Five Years". Come snitch with us!
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Ready, ready. Hey everyone, welcome back to the latest episode of Snitchin' it's your host, kristen and Brittany.
Speaker 2:Get ready for the best part of your day. What's up, britt? How was your weekend? It was good. It was a weekend that I'm honestly glad is over, because my husband, chris, was in a golf tournament all weekend, so I had my two children all weekend, which was was fun. But I made some poor decisions on Saturday night that I'm still kicking myself.
Speaker 2:For. They do like an event with like so the guests can, like you know, see the clubhouse and like they like kind of like deck it out and it's full, full, uh, open bar, and there's like a ton of food and it's like included in the money. Chris had to pay like a couple hundred bucks to get in the tournament, so it's like free, because it's part of that. So I was like, oh, why not? I guess I'll go. I've never been like Kelly's been like four times. She was like you haven't been to this, and I was like, no, and now I remember why. Because I would always be like, well, no, I have my kids of them. So, yeah, so that's what I did and that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 2:Like my Saturday was so productive. I woke up, I, we went on a nice long walk, we went to the playground, we went to the library. I had like 11,000 steps by like 11 AM. Dang, I did all the chores, Tyler took a nap, did a workout. I was like so productive. And then the event thing wasn't until like 7 pm and I didn't get home till like midnight. And so sunday it was like a crash and burn, yeah. So I was like eating mcdonald's. We were, we. I took them to, we had to like lay around. I laid around for a couple hours and we went to Target just to kill time. Then I was like found myself driving around until 11 am waiting for McDonald's lunch to open Like who am I?
Speaker 1:Words I've never heard you say in your life.
Speaker 2:Well, I wanted to get them food, but then I was like I'm definitely getting some fries and a nice DC Fountain.
Speaker 1:DC is for McDonald's might be the best DC on the planet. Yeah, it wasn't enough, wasn't enough.
Speaker 2:Um, so yeah, then I like laid in my bed for an hour while Tyler took a nap and like literally didn't move, um, and I was just hurting all day. It was just the complete opposite. The house was an absolute disaster, um, and I got nothing done. So I guess, parents, you guys can all laugh at me. Hopefully you have not been in the same experience.
Speaker 1:How did Chris play? How was he feeling the next day?
Speaker 2:Good, I mean he well, that's like, yeah, he had something Thursday night and Saturday so it was tough. I don't think he played that good.
Speaker 1:But I also don't really pay attention. Yeah, I mean please, well, it sounds like you had fun on saturday, even though you were paying for it.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, it was fun I got to hang out with like a lot of my aunts and uncles and my cousins were there and stuff. So it was fun. But I was like, oh, this is why I don't go to this event yeah, right right. It's just too hard taking care of children the next day. Like you think, parenting hungover is like a death sentence. Like single parenting hungover is is actually a death sentence. Like single parenting hungover is is actually a death sentence.
Speaker 1:True torture.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so behind on everything today how was your weekend?
Speaker 1:It was nice. I was with my family. I went and had a day with Melissa on Saturday. We bopped around legacy place, so that was really fun. And then I saw coffee date man on Friday night and then yesterday I kind of just chilled. I didn't do a whole lot, you know. Just Sunday, sunday reset, but I also started that. Uh, the show quarterback on Netflix came out, season two. So I've been, oh, it did, oh yeah, and obviously I was so excited to see my main man, joe, but more than anything, jared Goff. Surprise of the series. I'm obsessed.
Speaker 2:I can see that. Oh my God. I used to have him on my fantasy team, like when he was like a rookie and he was like really good, it was like a good pick. So I always kind of like him.
Speaker 1:No, I. He is so endearing. So his wife is named Kristen. She's beautiful Like a model. It got me thinking it must be really hard to be an NFL quarterback's wife. Jared Goff. Episode one talks about how when he was traded from Los Angeles to Detroit he was totally blindsided Like there was no conversation. You can tell he was still bitter about it.
Speaker 2:The way he brought it up, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then I was like okay, so you, if you're Kristen Goff, you meet this guy when he moves out here in 2018, start dating and you're in Los Angeles and then you have to move to Detroit on a moment, on a whim. Yeah, that's hard, shout out to the wags because you girls are holding it down and I just feel like you have to have.
Speaker 1:You have to like make your life fit around their life and just be okay, knowing that they're the breadwinners famous they can be gone for like a long time, days at a time and stuff like that too gone for long days at a time and you're probably gonna have women throwing themselves at your man everywhere they go, true I?
Speaker 2:didn't even think of that. The wives I feel like though there is a slight. It's more impressive for, like the, not as famous football players that don't make a lot of money like their wives, because I feel like if you make a lot of money and can have like nannies and can like travel as often as you want and like. Have all this help in the world like I.
Speaker 1:That's not as impressive yeah, that's true, you should watch it. I think you would really like it, and I think it's a good for any girly that has any interest in football. It's a really good watch, and you could watch it with your partners if they like football too. I'm not gonna watch for chris why?
Speaker 2:because he just like shits all over anyone that's not the patriots. It's like boring, like okay, the patriots aren't good anymore. And like he wouldn't like like watching like uh, joe Burrow's fashion and all that he'd be like so annoying.
Speaker 1:So, um, jared Goff's cute too, I think no, jared Goff is so cute Jared Goff is like he's my new football crush.
Speaker 2:I'm interested in him. You've made me more interested, but I like already kind of was because I was like I feel like he's good. No one really talks about him.
Speaker 1:They talk a lot about how that team like is really risky. They'll go forward on fourth down a lot Like they're fun to watch. I love that. Yeah, no, I was really surprised by the end of it. I was just as interested in him, and Kirk Cousins is just like kind of a funny goofy dude.
Speaker 2:Was he on the last one?
Speaker 1:yeah, isn't he the one that has like 10 kids, no um, but he's the one who's he has, I think, two boys, but he's the one whose wife picks out his clothing and he kind of gets you know, do you?
Speaker 2:think that's weird. I mean, maybe not it's when you say it like oh right, like that, it sounds weird yeah, well, I guess he people kind of.
Speaker 1:He was trending on twitter and trending online because he was wearing these very cole's cash target shirts that were just like compared to his teammates, who are all swagged out. You know, people are making fun of him and he says oh, my wife julie just picks out my outfits yeah, I mean, I did have the same thought, like right after.
Speaker 2:Like my brother Kyle's, like that he just like doesn't care about clothes. He'll wear khakis and black sneakers everywhere. So sometimes he needs someone, like he needs Sammy, to help him get dressed yeah so when you, if it's like that, then it's not as crazy yeah, but that was my big news from the weekend.
Speaker 1:Um, okay, should we talk? Talk about Bieber's new album. We said that on Friday we were going to listen to it over the weekend and talk about it on Monday. Swag what did you think?
Speaker 2:um, I like it. I feel like the more at once I was like two or three times through it, I started to like it more. I maintain that like it's hard to understand him at some parts. I don't know if it's like a billy eilish type of thing, so I'm having trouble figuring out, like, what all the songs are about. But I like it. I like the r&b vibe. Um, my favorite song is daisies, I think right now.
Speaker 1:Daisies stands out to me. I also really like All I Can. Take the first one and it's catchy yeah, it gets stuck in my head. And 405 was another one.
Speaker 2:I like that one too.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, brit, yeah, and that one's like way down the way I listen to music. I'm curious how you do it. I'll go on Apple Music and I'll normally listen to the song and then I'll read. I'll skim the lyrics really quickly.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's smart. Yeah, I need to do that I don't usually.
Speaker 1:That's what I did for all of them and you can definitely tell it's a love album. It's about like him being in love with Haley, some of the struggles that they've had, but like at the end of the day, that's his girl and then also that, yeah, being a dad, there's 21 tracks on it, but that is misleading.
Speaker 1:When I first saw 21 tracks I was like what, what is this like? Ttpd bar two Like this is going to be a lot to listen to, but it's less than an hour long and it's because he has. Three of the tracks are actually just minute long. It's a comedian, exactly.
Speaker 2:It's like a sketch almost. I was going to say you know, it reminded me of Selena's album. I had the same thought, the one that came out earlier this year, yeah.
Speaker 1:Selena Gomez's album that she did with Benny Blanco. The first song on it is a recording and I found out that it was from the last or one of the last days. They shot wizards of Waverly place and it was like the speech that she gave to the crew and cast there Gotcha, that makes sense, yeah, which I thought was cool to like bring that back really full circle. But Bieber did the same thing. He has three tracks on here that are like, that are like his therapy sessions, but it's's like it's the difference between listening to like singles versus listening to an album full through. I felt like I had a different experience listening to it full through, with those interspersed, because it gives context to like what he's talking about, like he in one of the things he talks about, how, um, you know him living under the microscope and being famous that, like, people keep asking him are you okay, are you okay?
Speaker 1:and that makes him paranoid like am I okay? Am I the only person that's struggling, or whatever. And he has one about the paparazzi.
Speaker 2:I just I like that he had them yeah, I feel like I a lot of people are like on those, but I don't mind them. I feel like I mean it's part of like the art exactly like that's.
Speaker 1:That's exactly my point. Like that's the difference between a single and like the full. It's a part of the album, you know. Yeah, like a part of the whole thing he's trying to do right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it makes it feel like more cohesive or whatever. Yeah, I don't know, I'm like, I feel like it's like, I like it, I like. I feel like I get the point that they're trying to make it's a part of the art and like I feel like the therapy sessions and stuff it's like things he wants you to know. But it's also kind of like like I've always thought, like in tv, when they have like a therapy session, it's like cheap, like that's like an easy way out to like explain to the audience all, like like the characters, feelings and stuff, like that it's just like an easy way out, rather than like making more incorporated into the songs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I don't think there's a single I don't think so because he I mean it was a surprise album, but I could say I think daisy's is the one that I've seen the most online. I think that's the one that's getting like the most traction, but I haven't heard him release of an actual single daisy sounds like harry styles song yeah, don't you think it wasn't that.
Speaker 2:I know I didn't have that thought, but I'd have to go back and do it again I'll go back and listen.
Speaker 1:I just love his voice. You know, when we listen to a taylor album, so much of what we're listening for is the lyrics, like that's what we're breaking down and paying attention to. That's not how I feel about this album. Like I knew it was about like hayley and being a dad and all that. But um, even my favorite songs, like 405 and I Can Take, it's a lot of the same lyrics just over and over and over again.
Speaker 2:Or it's like this whining like I don't know this, like mumbling kind of thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like you're not reading, you're not listening to it. For his like lyrical prowess in my mind. Yeah, does he write his own songs. On each song there's literally like seven people that are credited for writing and producing. Like the first one, all I can take one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and that's like how all of them are. Wow, so, yeah, it's hard to tell. Yeah, so it's just like a lot of people on there.
Speaker 2:Did you see the like?
Speaker 1:artwork. Yeah, I did see the artwork. Yeah, yeah, I like it. Yeah, no, I like it. Yeah, I have no issue with it. I liked how he had Haley and Jack, the baby, in it. Me too, it seems like it's been reviewed pretty well.
Speaker 2:Pitchfork yes, I feel like it's been like it's like, eh, but like more good than bad.
Speaker 1:But one thing that's I read that stood out was someone said that it's. Someone said it's like the best pr control you could have, which I agree with, because he's able to like speak his side of the story. And then I feel like people kind of give him a break, they're like all right, let's lay off this guy. He's just human, so good timing for it, for sure yeah, I feel like bieber is always facing adversity.
Speaker 2:I don't know why. Yeah totally seems like he's always just getting slammed um, but yeah, um, all right. What do we get next?
Speaker 1:um, next, another headline that came out last week. Um, there's actually been a lot that's come out over the weekend. I don't know if you saw, but like we, we don't have time to get into all of these, but olivia colpo gave birth to her baby girl. What do you think of the name colette? I don't know much about the colpos, I'm not one that follows them on social media and I never watched their show and christian mcafree I only know. I don't know anything about his personality, so I guess I say that to say like my opinion, like take it with a grain of salt. She strikes me as someone that wants to be like classic and timeless and like with her wedding she had a really long sleeve, simple wedding dress.
Speaker 2:Oh, I saw that yeah.
Speaker 1:Remember that, and everyone thought it was going to be so different because she's such a fashionista. But it was almost like she tried to go really simple, elegant, whatever, and then she kind of got some hate for it. I feel like that. It's this with the name like colette. I feel like she's trying to make it. Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:yeah, I see what you're saying. Yeah like, trying to make it like classy or something. Yeah like, yeah, you gotta remember she comes from like the pageant world right, which I feel like is a big, is key she's.
Speaker 1:She's in that dallas cowboy cheerleader realm. She's adjacent, exactly, exactly, it's, it's.
Speaker 2:It reads like it's trying too hard yeah, I, I don't like names that are long, that like you, can't really shorten to. Like colette, what do you call her? Call?
Speaker 1:call lani, you don't maybe that, but that's so far off yeah, I actually don't hate the name, but just on them, I immediately dismiss it as like all right, you're just I don't know you're trying to be unique and different, but you're premium.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyway, but yeah, so that happened. Oh, um, did you?
Speaker 1:see, jennifer aniston's got a new boo. You're trying to be unique and different, but you're premium anyway. But yeah, so that happened. Oh, did you see Jennifer Aniston's got a new boo? Yeah, hypnotist.
Speaker 2:That's cool.
Speaker 1:That doesn't surprise me. She's very I think she's very into meditation, and like wellness, wellness. And yeah, so that happened. Brody Jenner got married. I feel like Brody Jen jenner I has he been married before. I feel like this man's married all the time is that. Am I wrong?
Speaker 2:it's funny that you say that, because I like I got like an email, that's like. You know the people send you like the headlines or whatever, and I was like brody jenner's just getting married, like I thought he'd been married before.
Speaker 1:Same same, same same. So, yeah, that happened. I we're not love islanders, but I know that that came to a finish. So a lot happened over the weekend, but the one that I think we need to talk to you and then we'll do. Um, the oh, the yeah, the book. Sheena shea was in the news. She just released her memoir, which did you.
Speaker 2:I did not know she was but I bet she's writing a memoir is laugh out loud funny. She should be writing like a comic book or something oh my god.
Speaker 1:Well yeah, sheena shea from vanderpump uh rules fame wrote a memoir. In it she talks about how her now husband, brock, cheated on her uh when she was pregnant with their daughter summer, summer moon, back in I think it was 2023. I don't have the article up, but it was around and it came. I guess it was like around the scandal of all time, because do you remember there was a lot of press about brock having an affair with Raquel slash Rachel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think she was pregnant Summer's, like the same age as Connor, so she was pregnant with her in like 2020, 2021.
Speaker 1:I think, yes, yes, but I think when the Scandival stuff came out and she started pressing Brock, and that's when she found out that he cheated when she was pregnant.
Speaker 1:Obviously, they're still together and she said essentially that he told her and the reason that he stepped out was because he was struggling to deal with the stress of, like, being a dad, but also because I think he was having issues about his own self-esteem because he does have a daughter or has kids in Australia that he is estranged from, never sees them. So he was like can I handle being a dad? Do I deserve to be a dad? Which poor excuse. Okay, thank you, for I was just gonna say eye rolling, like, give me a break oh, I am, so I'm having such a hard time.
Speaker 2:I don't know my identity as a dad. Okay, let me go cheat on someone, like sleep with someone what?
Speaker 1:like, a plus b does not equal c sark, you're not gonna find it like that's actually the opposite thing you should do if you're trying to be a good like good dad or whatever totally like do you think that you're gonna get garner sympathy from all of these people because we're supposed to understand the struggle you're going through being scared to be a parent like who isn't?
Speaker 1:yeah, legit like this is something everyone deals with like, yeah, sorry, brock, I feel bad for sheena, but it's also just seems typical for sheena, like she's just clueless her first husband, what shea was out to lunch that was michael shea that.
Speaker 2:I just think it's so weird that she goes by his last name I think that's very strange too they were married for like three months it's really weird.
Speaker 1:Totally. She had a crop job wedding dress.
Speaker 2:That was the crop job wedding dress. That was the crop job wedding dress.
Speaker 1:The crop job. I've never seen a bigger bridezilla. The day of her wedding, sheena, was a legit nightmare. That whole wedding, it was ridiculous. I felt so bad for her wedding planner and also I was like what a terrible attitude to have during what's supposed to be the happiest day of your life, like you're ruining it.
Speaker 2:What like percentage of her book do you think is about her wedding? Oh my God, brittany, like 30?.
Speaker 1:No, like 30 to 40? Probably, oh my God. And then I think, didn't she perform Good as Gold? Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, that, I think, was when she got married to Brock.
Speaker 1:Oh, she performed it Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so she's got married Brock. Oh, she performed it. Okay, yeah, yeah, so she's got married twice. And then she had that guy that could hang the TV in seven minutes. They didn't get married.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what I'm saying. It's like she's just clueless, Like she was so obsessed with that guy Rob and then he like didn't like her. He was like bye, Sheena, sheena. Like I bye poor sheena. She's so surface, I know, but that's why I feel almost like worse for her in this scenario because I feel like she's just true. I see this character I built in my head.
Speaker 2:I'm like, oh sheena I know I wasn't also kind of sad to hear that because I like brock and I feel like they're good together. I've been happy for sheena lately yeah, I wish her best, you know. Yeah, um, but yeah, I was definitely sad to find out and it definitely is way worse the fact that she was pregnant. I'm more I'm honestly more interested in the memoir. I like need to know what's in it wait, do we read sheena shea, sheena marie?
Speaker 1:shea no, no, I'm not reading it. You don't want to spark notes version.
Speaker 2:okay, I feel like I'd be dumber after reading that I'm not wasting my time.
Speaker 1:There is a new Housewives and I was. I think we should watch it.
Speaker 2:It's the Real Housewives of Rhode Island that doesn't sound interesting, I'm gonna watch it it's. I mean, I'll watch it because it's around here, but like if I wasn't from here I would be like why I don't want to watch the show in fucking rhode island I know, apparently it's very italian so it's.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's like a jersey one yeah, it's giving jersey vibes, but you know who was cast as um a housewife. I'm so excited about this. Heather actually messaged me about this. Ashley Iaconetti from the Bachelor I don't know who that is oh my God, brett, she is iconic in Bachelor Nation. So her and Jared are a couple that are both Bachelor alums. They met on Bachelor in Paradise. I'm obsessed with this couple. I follow them on social. They're such a good social follow, follow them. And he's from Rhode Island, so they live in Rhode Island. Now they actually have a coffee shop in Rhode Island that they own. I think I need to get there. But yeah, it was just revealed that they're being cast. It's going to be awesome.
Speaker 2:I'm surprised. I feel like Rhode Island is so random. I don't know. I mean, yeah, but maybe I'll check it out. I don't know. In general, though, the housewives are kind of boring to me.
Speaker 1:I know that's okay, You're not. You don't have to be a reality TV junkie.
Speaker 2:Well, it's like sometimes I like I can get into them, but it has to be like a good one. I like if I am not entertained in a reality TV show I'll just stop watching it. Yeah, I hear that. But so like, if you tell me something's good and then I watch it, then I'll probably like it.
Speaker 1:But I wouldn't just go start Housewives. Yeah, definitely not the Bachelor. Oh sorry, I it depends on the season with the Bachelor. Sometimes I can get into it. But Paradise is great. Paradise is more authentic because they're like. It's not like one man dates 30 women and they're all vying for his attention it's, they're all dating each other yeah, that's much better.
Speaker 2:I that was always my problem with the Bachelor. It's just like a weird dynamic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no hurt, but anyhow. Last last thing that we want to get to um, because we're kind of like going over on time. We were going to do this on Friday but we didn't have time. Uh, the book review for in five years. I don't think we've actually said the premise.
Speaker 1:So to set the stage a little bit, basically it's about a woman who you find out very early on, very type a, really like controlling in her life. She wants to have a pulse on everything, have everything fall perfectly into place. So it's all working out for her. She's getting into a top law firm, law firm in New York. She's about to get engaged to her boyfriend and, like a picture perfect way they get engaged.
Speaker 1:And that night she falls asleep and has a dream that she's five years in the future. But it's not a dream, it's. It feels really real and she realizes that she's not in the same apartment with her fiance. She's in a whole new apartment with a new man named Aaron Gregory. They end up having a night together. She wakes up and she's back in her real life and she can't seem to shake the dream because it felt so real. And then it kind of goes on to to. You know that's like the first, like say hello, give me an away, right, well, but that's I mean, that happens and this is something I was going to say I really liked about this book. It's really fast paced and it you find all of that out in the first two to three chapters.
Speaker 1:It sets the easy, quick read I think I read the whole thing in like five hours yeah, that yeah, I mean, it was only it was less than 300 pages yeah, good job recapping it, though.
Speaker 1:Thank you, um. And essentially, she, you know it. It fast forwards like about four and a half years in the future and she's still with the fiance, but you can tell the dream did get to her, she she hasn't married him yet, and then you end up finding out who the dream man is and it all kind of unfolds, and so that's that's all we'll say, just in case you know, this makes you interested enough to go pick up the book and read it. It's a really quick read, like Britain I said. It's entertaining for sure. But one thing I noticed is that it was written, or it was published in March 2020.
Speaker 2:I caught on to that, too, that it was 2020. I forget how, but I remember being like, oh wait, when was this made? I feel like it. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's so trippy, like she finished it right before COVID. It's published in the month of COVID and then in the book they're predicting what life is going to be like in five years, so it's 2025.
Speaker 2:I just was like reading it and I was like, oh, this is just like a weird trippy thing that this lady, when she yeah you know, didn't know what was actually gonna happen yeah, there was something I feel like in the book that made me be like, oh wait, this must have been pre-COVID, I can't remember exactly what it was, but but yeah, well, I feel like we kind of have. Mean, I think, if you want to read the book, maybe just stop now the podcast, because how are we going to talk about it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, just sign off now. We're going to give some spoilers, but we'll be back on Wednesday, so just tune in then and like us on social. And like us on social. Yeah, I guess. Do you want to say how it ends?
Speaker 2:Sure, yeah, so, the guy Aaron, that's his name, right? Yeah, he ends up being her. So she has her best friend. What's the best friend's name? Bell, bella, bella, yeah, bella. So yeah, she grew up with this best friend and they're like Bella ends up dating him and she's like, oh, I'm like really into this guy, like I guess she kind of like she hasn't had a long relationship before but she's finally found the one, and it turns out to be aaron, the guy that the main girl dreamt, slept with or whatever.
Speaker 2:She's like all freaked out about that, which I was like whoa, how are they gonna get out of this? But then it takes a little bit of a turn. Bella ends up getting cancer, like bad cancer, and I think she gets diagnosed. She dies in like less than a year. So like she's like newly dating this guy, aaron, who like sticks around and they're like in love and blah, blah, blah, and then at the end she, she passes away and the main girl sleeps with aaron, her boyfriend, and like she, oh, the whole thing was just like about grief or something Like it wasn't love she was feeling, it was grief.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she said so when she gets in the first couple of chapters, when she is in her flash forward. Basically, she says in the chapter there's this feeling. I'm feeling this like overwhelming feeling, I can't name it, I can't name it. So the whole time you're kind of like wondering what it is and it turns out that it's grief because she ends up having this like affair or not affair, but this one night with with Aaron after the funeral of her best friend. So you realize, like at that point that it's not that she's really in love with Aaron, it's just that she was overwhelmed by her best friend's death.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you go into the book thinking it's going to be a classic internal conflict, like she's going to have to choose between the life that she should quote unquote have versus the person she's really in love with. And you think after the first couple of chapters that's really what the book's going to be about. And I was surprised that that's not what the book was about. It's really about her and her best friend, her. You find out that the main woman what's her name? Shoot what did we just say? Danny? So basically backstory Danny's brother dies in a car crash, a drunken, a drunk driving accident, when she's a kid.
Speaker 1:So you kind of you kind of realize, like the whole theme of the book is like you want to control life but but you can't. You can't control like what's going to happen. So kind of live for now is what. That's what I took away from the book. So, yeah, I was. I mean, it was so sad like I was definitely in crocodile tears at some point. I will say the kiss between Aaron and Danny, like that hookup, seemed very random to me. I do not think that they built up that relationship between the two of them well enough to where you would think that they would actually hook up after after bella
Speaker 2:dies yeah, it wasn't like they were like flirting throughout the book and like it had feelings for each other. It was just yeah, it was like they were upset so had sex with each other. I felt a little like tricked at the end of the book. That was what I was. I liked the book, but I I felt like I got tricked because I was like wait. So you told me this whole time, this whole dream that this was about is like not, I don't know what you've been saying. It was the whole time. But then I was glad she ended up getting like it seems like they were, you know, teeing up that she was going to get together with that doctor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it does end up. It definitely leaves on like a hopeful note. Yeah, and there was one part in the book so you kind of wonder, in the flash forward Dani is saying how she's in a new apartment and you're kind of wondering, like how does this apartment end up being hers? Because she says in the flash forward that her closet has her stuff in it, Like so she knows she lives there in this, in this.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And you come to find out. One of the parts that made me cry was that Bella, like as she was dying, buys this apartment for Danny and renovates it and gives it to her as a gift, and it's almost like she's taking care of Danny and, and, whereas you feel like roles a gift. And it's almost like she's taking care of danny and, and, whereas you feel like roles are reversed and it's always like danny taking care of bella's. So that was a really sweet chapter. I was dying and I was like, oh my god, I was bawling my eyes out at that yeah, I know that was.
Speaker 2:That was another thing about the book. It was like I was a little bit blindsided by, like the, the sad aspect.
Speaker 1:I wasn't expecting that going in all right. Well, you kind of gave me a heads up.
Speaker 2:You said it was sad, but yeah, because I read it right after demon copperhead. I like quit demon copperhead because I was like this is the saddest book I've ever wrote written. I'm so depressed and I was like, oh, I'll start this in five years. It's a romance book, 250 pages, easy to read, and it was like no childhood friend getting cancer and dying in months well, should we do like the like we have for the movies and things.
Speaker 1:Should we do a book rating?
Speaker 2:one yeah one to ten. Yeah well, you go first it was okay.
Speaker 1:Prose, fast-paced, um, quick read, easy read. I liked the characters and it made me cry pretty heavily. I'm going to give it like a seven five.
Speaker 2:I was going to say seven, we're aligned. Yeah, I thought it was a good book. The ending I was just like a little bit like don't tricked.
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