This is actually like my fifth reread. Sometimes when I'm on the bus I'll just go to this book on my phone and read certain bits of it. I do not think anyone has read a book they consider deeply mid as much as I have this one. 

I simultaneously kinda hate this book and also consider it my Roman Empire. I think about it way too much for a book I did not actually like the experience of reading. I can name you five different scenes I truly love and desperately want to see adapted. I can also tell you that I really can't recommend it unless you're willing to overlook a LOT of iffy shit. I can tell you that I wholeheartedly believe Phillip Crane has the potential to be one of the best fictional men ever and I can also tell you oh my god I have never seen a harder fumble of genuinely great ideas than his characterization and dialogue. I can tell you that I can really easily see Eloise from the show slot into the plots of this book and I can also tell you that it is pretty hard to reconcile her book version and her show version.  

3.5 for some genuinely pretty interesting and complex ideas and also some of the strangest execution fumbling I've ever read. I kinda hate it. I am also deeply obsessed with it.

I NEED to see this as a season of television.

ETA: on second thought. my deep, bizarre, unabiding love for this book warrants an extra 0.25 stars. unfortunately.