best feature: queernormative world that some people may find cozy; there is technically a scene where a character masturbates to death. 

worst feature: the utter predictability of every single plot point, not that there are a ton of plot points. The writing is awkward (not awful, just also not good) and the dialogue can’t decide if it wants to be semi-normal or this weird version of victorian speech where no one uses contractions. I hated the love interest and the main character wasn’t exactly endearing either. this was fairly boring and painful to get through and the payoff was the exact ending I could have told you would happen from like, 30% of the way into the book.