All and all I liked this book! The pacing was pretty good and the concept was interesting and alluring. There were a few qualms I had with it though, which is why I'm rating it 3 stars. They're all personal opinions, and I would defintely recommend this book otherwise.

My first issue is I'm not a huge fan of contemporary fiction because I feel it gets dated very easily. There's a lot of real-life references that were relevant in 2015 but are no longer relevant in 2021, so that always kind of snaps me out of it. Second, I personally don't like when characters speak in a dialect. I like sentence descriptors that explain an accent or dialect, but when it's written out line after line, I feel like it can be a lot of mental labor - especially for a book with as much dialogue as this one. Lastly, there was one character that I really wanted to know about toward the end. I won't spoil it but I didn't get as much closure as I'd have like, which was totally intentional and I respect that! But I would have liked just one more chapter to explain things.

Again, I really did enjoy this book! I just think I was too focused on the loose ends and extra little things that I have opinions about to be engrossed in it like I wanted to be.