The concept of this book is so fascinating and unique, and the author managed to write about sex without it being weird or gross.

However, most of the execution was a letdown. The writing was clumsy and it often felt like I was reading an unedited draft. There were a lot of descriptions of food and places, but they were all out of place. It almost felt like the author thought 'My character is in a new place, I have to extensively describe it because that's what writers do' or 'My character is having a meal with people, I have to say what everyone got', which would have been fine if it had blended into the story seamlessly, but it was basically dialogue–description–dialogue–description and there was no transition into one or the other, so the descriptions felt like amateurish space fillers.

One time the author repeated an idea she had already written about earlier in the book, and I don't think the repetition was intentional. The pacing was also a bit off and the foreshadowing that was weaved throughout the book seemed to be forgotten at the end.