The blurb and concept are totally things I would be interested in, but right off the bat I found this tropey in a bad way and I just did not like being in the head of one of the main characters, who, for the 10% of the book I made it through, just wanted to nail a chick. Somehow buddy’s inner voice was more cringe than the guy in You. I’m not joking. The dynamics of the main cast are archetypal, the bad guy feels that way so far too.

The blurb makes it sound like it’ll be subversive of the genre, and in some ways it is, just not in anyways I find compelling enough to continue with it, which sucks, because I actually think there’s a huge stake to be claimed on more HP as college students/adults in a way that isn’t The Magicians. It’s actually slightly baffling there isn’t more fiction like it, considering.