So I wanna start this by saying that I liked Docile when I first read it. I thought (still do think) that it has some issues and can come off as kind of tone deaf at times. This book takes all the issues I had with Docile and somehow makes them worse. I'm sure there are people who love this book and I'm not trying to step on the toes of people who may even find this story cathartic in any way, but yeah it's super not for me. The content warning at the beginning is not nearly enough to cover the extreme nature of the subject matter. Besides just the topics covered, there were too many POVs and too much happening in the story. I didn't like these characters, not at one, and I didn't ultimately feel any connection to them even though I should have because of their trauma. The fact that I left this book feeling empty inside is not a compliment. I'm not sure if this is a sophomore book syndrome of if Szpara is just... not for me after all.