This book is one of those that’s just so incredibly fun, that it just forces you to enjoy reading it. This book did deal with a lot of heavier topics, mainly relating to queerness and being forced to hide it, but the writing, characters, and their banter just made it all feel so much lighter! It’s definitely a fantastic book to pick up when you need a generally lighter read and want a type of writing that doesn’t take itself too seriously and is there just to give you a fun time. The cast is just full of a bunch of queer disasters, and I loved seeing how they all came together to help each other and befriend each other, even if they were not fans of each other at first! 

One of the things that I struggled with a bit in this book was maintaining my focus and finishing it up, though it may have been more my fault than the book’s for that. I did end up finishing it up in audio format, and I feel like I would have enjoyed it even more if I read it entirely as an audiobook! I just find it difficult sometimes to push through romance and contemporary books when the main characters are acting difficult and miscommunication kind of takes over, though I can see now at the end that it really wasn’t that bad at all!

One other thing I wasn’t as big a fan of was the sharp turn in focus in the final portion of the book seemed to take. Most of the book felt fairly low-stakes and was a bit more fluffy, focused more on the characters and their romances and relationships with each other, with a touch of politics. The ending is extremely focused on these politics, more so than anything else, and I felt like we lost a bit of the conclusion to the character side of the story because of it. It was also suddenly a lot darker and more harrowing. It made sense for the way the plot turned at the end, but it didn’t fit tonally with the rest of the book for me, and it made the ending feel much more abrupt.

Overall though, I had a lot of fun with this book, and I’ll definitely be reading more by this author in the future!