and so we, we kind of end and this is like, I guess combining Garrett character with, with style, but we end in a place that I could see the, the romantic side of Garrett dying in the next book.

Yeah.

I, I, the, that title was very much on my mind throughout this book.

Um, Because I brought this up, it was either Whispering Nickel Idols or Cruel Think Melodies.

I mentioned to you that I was getting worried for Tinny because there is a trope in the detective noir genre of the detective settles down with a woman and that woman gets murdered.

And then, you know, that brings, that yanks him back into the game.

And so at the beginning of this book, when Straffa died, I, which kudos to you, first of all, for not, when I brought that up, you didn't give anything away.

paradigm shift.

Because she's... such a strange character.

Yes.

Um, so after cruising melodies, you know, I felt pity for her because she was raised in a very disturbing and awful environment, but also like, I don't know.

I didn't think too much of her because I didn't expect this to come.

Um, and throughout this book, there's a conversation that Garrett has with the dead man where he describes her as a distinct sort of sociopath where like, she does not have typical human feelings in, you know, because of her trauma and her terrible upbringing, she could very easily, you know, become a very submissive person to Garrett because, you know, that's what she is used to.

But if Garrett were to overstep in some way, she could also fry him to ash.

And I feel similarly about their relationship as I did about him and Belinda, where he's Garrett.

I'm not going to get into this, but I think in this political moment in the United States of America, this is something a lot of people should probably keep in mind.