I wanted to love this book. It sounded interesting, and I already had a good history with the author’s writing. It was a hyped book even for the arc, and it should have been true bookish love. 

 

Except, the more I sit with this book, the more I find wrong with it. It is also going to be very hard to write this review spoiler free. But I will do it - if you want more specifics, then please reach out. I would be happy to give you spoiler examples. 

 

The premise of the world is that you can jump into different bodies. Then bodies become more husks and less attachment. This fell flat for me on multiple levels. People were attached, and yet there was still no trauma. People should have been able to jump bodies to stop from being killed…and yet…Then the entire society was built on an individual number. We have that now (at least in the US). It is called a social security number - and how well does that work out for us? In order for that to work, you would have to keep giving out your number to so many people to verify it, making it even less secure. It just wouldn’t hold up for any real security. 

 

When people jump, the color of their eyes stay the same. So you can tell if someone has been invaded if their eye color changes. Especially if there are very rare eye colors like yellow - which only royalty have. How does this work? No idea. But it is supposed to be a constant. And herein lies a massive plot hole - one that I can’t even hint out without spoilers. But once you read the book, come back and read this rule and then thing through the characters and see if you spot the MASSIVE unexplained plot hole. 

 

Also, the ending was both extremely predictable as well as one massive set of confusion to set up for book two. Like it was just decided at the last second not to make it a stand-alone. If it had been a stand-alone, I probably would have liked it better. 

 

There are also random present tense changes that I only hope were caught before publication and some other writing areas that should have been fixed, and I hope were. 

 

If you can ignore all of that, the book is fine. I also completely understand why people DNF’ed it early. I honestly don’t know what to rate this book, so I don’t think I will.