I liked this book quite a bit. The MMC had a really interesting storyline and I thought it was handled pretty well. He's in foster care and planning to care for his brothers once he turns 18, and it was actually enough to make me tear up a little bit toward the end. I was much more invested in him and his story than the other narrator. He did need a lot more time at the end to wrap it up, but I feel like that's pretty par for the course since it was a secondary element of the story.

There were cringe bits. I hate when characters can't actually say the word sex, especially when they're talking about having it. I can never get behind that. It's so cringe and awkward. Like y'all should not be doing anything hot and steamy when you're going around saying things like "I've never done 'it' before." If you took a shot every time the main female character said "it" instead of sex, you'd be wasted before they got into the drama.

The drama around Echo was not particularly well done. She went through a traumatic experience with her abusive mother that she's repressed, and it was very over the top and not sensitively handled. I never bought into it. And so much energy was put into her lack of memory and what she'd forgotten, but it wasn't a whole lot and it wasn't very dramatic, based on what she already knew.

But I liked the writing style and I had a good time reading this.