way too much meandering on plot, way too much of saying stuff to sound pretentious but not really saying anything. the characters came off as caricatures, with some having fleshed out backgrounds and motives and others not quite so much; libby and callum were respectively hermione and draco dupes. when i wasn’t confused or irritated by callum’s mere being i guess the book was tolerable. gonna have to give the sequel a miss just because the ending didn’t really rouse any interest for me.