**ᴛʜɪs ʙᴏᴏᴋ ɴᴇᴇᴅs ᴀ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢ**

A few thoughts:

🎀 Remember when Fifty Shades was having its moment, but when we started reading it we were a bit perplexed about the standard of writing? Yeah, this is kinda that all over again. I can see why it’s blown up, it’s as spicy as you would expect… but the writing is mediocre at best & the plot line is terrible! But I’ll be damned if it wasn’t the exact type of thing I needed to finish a book! 

🎀 The darker elements of death & mental illness felt at odds with the spiciness in this story.

🎀 The narrative swings between her being street-smart, capable in almost everything required to care for others, to then reminding us of her privileged white upbringing & lack of maturity. We cannot survive on spice alone people! The writing needs to be good!

🎀 It was readable. It was. Not all bad. I just struggled with certain elements of the characters & their storylines.