We Chase Shadows

Before we talk about the book at all: where did you do most of your reading, and did you have a blanket, a mug, or a cat involved?

Osman's writing has a particular kind of dry kindness to it. What was the first moment in this book that made you smile out loud, and did anyone in your house ask what you were laughing at?

Steve's whole instinct is to stay home with his quiet routines, while Amy's is to run straight at the danger. On a normal week, which of those two are you, and does the book make you wish you were the other one?

This trio is not a family by blood, they are a family by insistence. Who are the people who insist on you like that, and what does it feel like when they turn up?

Osman writes older characters as fully alive, funny, and still very much in the middle of their story rather than at the end of it. How did that land for you, and did it change anything about how you think of your own next chapter?

For a book about a killer at large, this one is oddly comforting to sit with. What do you think it does to make danger feel survivable, and did that make you read faster or slower?

Grief sits underneath a lot of Steve's warmth and a lot of the humour in these books. How did you feel about the way the book holds sadness and jokes in the same hand, and did any of it catch you off guard?

By the time you closed the book, who did you most want to check in on the next morning, and what would you want to say to them? No details, just the feeling you were left with.