The YA tropes of a selfish narrator and a perfect boyfriend made it hard for me to love this book. I almost put it down a few times, but stuck with it because at least the narrator wasn't a self-involved white girl. Harley is mixed race.

She's grown up in the circus her parents run. When she turns 18, she wants to finally live her dream of becoming a trapeze artist. When her parents insist she go to college, she runs...to another circus, committing an unforgivable act of betrayal.

You might glean I really wasn't a fan of this book. There is one aspect of it that interests me, though, and that's the mental health of the lovers. Harley seems to be manic-depressive, and her love interest Vas is on the autism spectrum. No diagnoses are made, and no medical treatments are considered. I think Harley seeks talk therapy, but that's it. I am down with the Icarus Project and mad acceptance, but I'm still puzzling out what was left unsaid about mental health.