I am going to be giving a spoiler but in the name of providing a trigger warning for this book. You've been told.

I was solidly going to give this book a 4.5/5 star as I was really enjoying it and surprised by it in the most pleasant of ways. Until I was surprised with a sexual assault/marital rape scene. I was absolutely shocked that I hadn't somehow heard of this considering the hype I heard around the Netflix show. I don't know if it is handled differently in the show. But this scene instantly brought up a pivotal need for this to be addressed in some way... and it really wasn't. It is made to seem non-consequential and it was completely glossed over. I am just not a fan of using rape as some cheap tool for furthering other plot points along and is supposed to in no way impact our view of the characters involved. When assault/rape occurs it then entails needing to be handled as its own moment.

After watching this lovely video and seeing we had similar thoughts on the first book... I will 100% not be reading anything further in this series. https://youtu.be/nA4SSgBSAHA