"breathed a sigh of relief that it's finally over. this book is so painfully uninspired, it actually sucked to read for a good majority. i feel like i know what she's trying to accomplish here, what threads the author is trying to pull, what narrative she's trying to create. it just falls apart so abysmally. there's at least three different paths this book veers off into that lead to nowhere.. which is like, okay maybe it was supposed to play a background role, but the constant empty tangents...all for a plot that's simultaneously predictable but also very?? messy??...and kinda awful, if i am being honest. the writing feels very overwritten too, or maybe it's just that this book doesn't call to be written in the way that it. is. written. there's no drive to the story, the misconstrued and hastily reconstructed narrative doesn't hold any weight to it, and i did not care about the romance. at all. it felt like a chore to read and was too par the course (derogatory) while also coming out of nowhere. i just felt exhausted reading this novel. anyway i mean, sure, what the hell. it's definitely a book. a very bland and ultimately pointless book, at that.
thank you to tor for the advance copy. (if you think this review is confusing, just wait until you read the book.)"

"For me, Olivie Blake books hit, or they dont. This, unfortunately, didn't. It's way overwritten. This is for someone who isn't me."

"i be reading anything"