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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ I meant to add, this is the only way her story could have ended. She was delusional from the start. It’s an anxiety-inducing novel because you just know she’s spiraling down. (But a beautifully written one, though!)[/quote]

I loved how a few times she referenced a girl she knew who went crazy and disappeared, and Alex almost disappointingly acknowledges that she herself will never go crazy.

But she does go crazy, and completely loses it at the very end, and she doesn’t even realize it.

(I disagree that she is just “dead” and it’s all a dream or hallucination at the end. But it’s open ended so people can make what they want of it.)[/quote]

So I just read this and loved those references to the other girl. Alex thinks to herself that maybe she’s going crazy, but then immediately thinks, almost disappointedly, that she’ll never go crazy.  Which I think just shows that of course she finally lost it at the end, just like that other girl— someone who goes crazy doesn’t think they’re going crazy! [/quote]

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