Probably one of the most refreshing YA novels I've read in a long time. I loved the overall writing style and how our main lead was actually allowed to feel righteous and justified anger towards her situation and oppression, which I feel doesn't happen often enough with woman-led YA fiction. So often they're encouraged to be merciful to their own detriment, but not here, which felt so validating. That ending went from 0 to outright chaos so fast but man was it a rush.

Also I hope this book starts the trend of finally ridding us of the plague which is the dumb love triangle and more throuples. I demand more throuples!

Xiran Jay Zhao has given us an absolutely stunning debut and I look forward to reading the sequel!