Three is Too Many, Four Is A Crowd

A Book Review

Catherine St. Clair is young, ambitious, and messy as hell!

Picture this, we’re at the end of 2024 and the world has just received the news about who will be the next president for the USA.

After bad news, most people might smoke some weed, go to a bar and have a few drinks, not Cat. She starts fucking. And not only is she fucking hers, if she were in our circle, she would’ve taken both our men Salt-N-Papa style.

And just like the American people who voted for the current president, all her morals fly out the window.

She’s on the road to self discovery. The only thing she knows for certain is that she doesn’t want to be like her parents and she wants to write a novel. So, she changed her relationship status with her college sweetheart, which gives her free rein to explore what she’s been missing.

“But maybe that’s what I wanted, to risk myself completely for this life that everyone told me was impossible”

Since there are no morals involved, she doesn’t get that two people are off limits: Her college sweetheart’s best friend and his girlfriend. The definition of messy. If she was going to do this, she could have picked someone outside of her immediate circle.

DUUHHH GIRL!

So did she really want to find herself or was she bored with her own life?

Is she doing this for the name of feminism or is the sex just that damn good?

Crack open this spicy, hot pink novel, which by the way, is one of the best covers of 2026, and read how Catherine fairs with these matters of the heart.

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Quotes 💭

“But there’ve been bad things before, people just didn’t know about it like we do. This is, like, one of the first generations where we know everything that’s happening everywhere. That’s not meant to feel good. How could it? To know this much at once”

“She made it sound so easy. Here we are twenty years later, still waiting for that nigga.”

“I’ve seen the world end many times. It’s never really the end. This is an argument for complacency, dear. Or for not caring. This is the argument for preparing for what comes after the end because there will be an after.”

“if there aren’t enough choices, you always make the wrong one”

“All that I understood was that a woman being asked by a man to belong to him in way I felt u shouldn’t have to belong to anyone”

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About the Author

Haili Blassingame is the author behind the hot pink cover; a producer for the show 1A from WAMU and NPR. She writes literary fiction about love, desire, and the decisions that feel impossible to make starring plucky, loud-mouth female protagonists of color.

Blassingame has written a New York Times Modern Love essay about breaking up with her boyfriend and a piece in The New Republic about Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer.

She’s been a guest on the Modern Love podcast, NPR’s Life Kit, and NPR’s 1A. She previously worked on NPR’s Code Switch and Weekend Edition. She resides in Washington, D.C.

Find her online at:

Instagram: @hailiwroteabook

Website: https://hailiblassingame.com/

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