I'm baffled by all the positive reviews on this book. It only barely reached two stars for me, and even then I feel it may be quite generous. I didn't like pretty much anything about this book. The dialogue was unrealistic, the writing was the very definition of telling instead of showing, the characters were annoying, and the casual sexism/ableism/etc was ridiculous to the point that I checked when this book was published. When was the last time "cripple" was an acceptable word to use? Not in 2015 when this came out.

There were a lot of gross tropes in this book that induce eye rolling individually, but combined just made for such an uncomfortable reading experience. Mentally ill people as crazed serial killers, men who can't cook, overprotective "macho" men, etc. In addition to being incredibly heteronormative and stating that asexuality is the result of either a hormone imbalance or trauma. I was not down.

I didn't actually read the whole description on the front flap until about twenty pages into the book, but that was when I figured out the ending. Knowing the ending so far in advance and knowing you're going to hate it is an incredibly unpleasant reading experience.