im not in the right headspace or situation for reading to be something that tires me and that i have to almost force myself to do. i need reads that motivate me and make me escape and this is not it. not because of its tone or theme (i chose to start it specifically because of that), but rather because the characters feel to rigid and stone-like to me, i couldn’t care about any of them, and so the book wasn’t entertaining or gripping me at all