elena
..kinda half-baked? chapters were too short for the amount of things happening within them, which made it harder to connect with characters & their stories. the thing is that all of them were interesting enough to deserve more attention and development and instead they all felt too rushed like there was a page limit for the author..
love what she's done with Cat's character. reading from Audrey's perspective, while yes, she is definitely self-absorbed, makes you see good in her too, trying to help Cat with her disaster of a love life, which makes the contrast even more stark when you see her through Cat's eyes. seeing her spiral with her desire to succeed at something, make sure the past stays hidden and obviously growing annoyance with her friend: the ending was just IT.
hopefully Max's train of thought in the end doesn't mean that this book will get ruined by being turned into some sort of series though
2.5: honestly, i was disappointed because the synopsis was so promising and made me expect an extremely dark & disturbing book, but.. i didn't think either of these qualities were there. the writing was too disjointed to make experiment descriptions creepy to me, and everything else felt like a surface level attempt to discuss deeper issues: it made me think, sure, the topics of race & class were mentioned, but weren't actually explored further. the ending was very rushed also, and overall the book made me question what exactly was the end-goal of this story.
