I listened to 90% of the book on a long drive. This book was so slow in the beginning that I almost didn’t continue. Though, it did do a lot of building up the characters so we understood their relationship.

I thought this story was interesting. I like how the story revolves around two gay 17 year olds and yet the story wasn’t really about that. There were enough details of how they were treated to see how they could be so violent and hateful. 

In the end, as I assume the author intended, I am left unsure which character was bad or at least worse than the other.

Overall, this story wasn’t super exciting for me. I’m not a huge fan of slow books with excessive detail. This one felt like there was a lot of detail in the beginning, then lacking in detail at the meat of the story.

I’d love to see a similar story done with the morally gray main characters.