Tina

I tried, I really did. But the grown arse man "fervently desiring" a 9 year old and marrying her a few years later was my last straw. Also all the incest and other shit. I felt physically ill reading this book, so I had to stop.

Wow did I not think I was going to like this when I started. It was heavy and grey feeling and the MC was a whiny beyatch.

And boy was I wrong.

I think the things I didn't like in the MC was the reason I needed to read this book. They're all the things we ALL have, will or are currently struggling with. Hopelessness, helplessness and just questions of self worth.

It felt so annoying because it hit so close to home for me. By the end I was a blubbering mess and also felt my near empty cup replenishing. Found that the mere hope of it being able to be replenished, was fuel enough.

As a strictly fiction, fantasy, romance, history, adventure loving reader, who loathes self-help, modern crime and realism type stuff, I would highly recommend.

Look, I tried. I really did. This was my first contemporary piece by a POC so I was incredibly excited. Got up to chapter 9. Could not physically keep going.

The MC is one of the most boring and blah beings to be put on the page. I'm sorry.

Well, I gave a good 3 chapters and it was a big fat no thank you.

I HATED the BFF, Ava or whatever. And the whiney mc, literally bitching about the "plastics," then describing her generic "pink/goth," BFF hitting all the cliches like it's literally not the same ting.

I just can't with white women.

I really wanted to like this but oh boy, I couldn't wait for it to end.

Really cool premise, but unbelievably boring execution.

Entitled white girl, laments her bad choice, after being told explicitly NOT to do the thing she did.

Also, why is everything set in New York?