I really loved the concept for this book (toxic positivity), but I hated the entire execution. 

The writing is wildly amateur, to the extent that I am shocked this had an editor and beta readers. I would be angry with these people. The first person perspective is trying too hard to be quirky at its best and like a child writing adult conversations at its worst. 

The plot is standard horror tropes with nothing original added. Nothing surprised me. Nothing felt even remotely new. Paganism but vague Latin? Come on. I felt no tension and no connection to the characters to attempt to conjure any. 

I normally think the statement that 'men shouldn't be allowed to write women' is too much of a blanket statement, but Gods even as a trans masc I can tell you this is not how women are friends with each other. This is a caricature of how women are friends with each other. 

Damn. I really wanted to like this for the theme and the cover art coming from one of my favorite artists but all this did was reassure me that I am not as bad of a writer as I think I am. I suppose that helps.