8am coffee and your tracker still said otherwise? Mine yelled at me for a 6am cup last week, said my deep sleep was trash.

Man, I have to push back on this HARD. Half the time a narrator "lies" it's not some big clever trick, it's just the author covering for a plot that doesn't hold up. Dave's line sounds deep at a diner at midnight, but take it apart and it basically says every sloppy book is secretly genius because the confusion was "the point." That's a free pass for bad writing. Sometimes a book makes you feel tricked because it actually tricked you cheaply, and calling that bold is how we end up picking garbage for book club and then defending it for three months.

Wait, the press guy just told you that straight up??