So this was really readable in a fairly basic kind of way. I'm not familiar with the publishing world, I'm not really in the whole booktok, bookstagram world so all this meta stuff about SM and publishing didn't really hit the mark for me. And yeah, it's about racism. In case it didn't hit you over the head about it enough to notice.

It was an interesting premise, and I kind of liked the plot (though the last section just got a bit ridiculous.) I read it in a couple of days. June is an asshole but she's readable. But it felt too much like it had 'Something To Say' and that came at the sacrifice of actual characters you could get behind. So, a bit flat for me.

And actually, the interesting bits - exploration around that very idea of who gets to write suffering, or the act of mining trauma for sales - that's the bit I wanted to see explored more fully.