I liked a lot of this, the world obviously was super interesting and the relationships between the characters was super compelling. The tone was wild, though, which maybe was the point--I kept feeling like I got whiplash, and while I know that like Gideon is witty and cutting, and when she is belligerent in other forms I was fine, but the 2017/2018 memes that get used as dialogue didn't strike me as particularly funny, and which I got more and more annoyed with the further I got into the book. I don't remember if the book was advertised with the specific trope (

enemies to lovers (/friends

) but I knew about halfway in where that was headed, though for the most part it wasn't ruined by that.

I was very into the story by the end, and I will almost definitely pick up the sequel, but there was some stuff I wasn't super into in terms of tone.