4.5 stars maybe? I really really liked this book but it was missing some more filling out of the characters.
This book, and specifically the fantasy element of the reveries, was like, very much the kind of thing I was thinking about as a high schooler desperate for escapism, constantly thinking about ways in which I didn't feel like I belonged around the people I knew, ways in which I was hyperaware of how my same identities that I was relatively safe in could be unsafe if I had been in different circumstances. I love the romance, even though I also wanted their relationship fleshed out a bit more, but because they had been together before but Kane had forgotten I give that more of a pass, and it certainly made for an interesting dynamic. I did not see some of the twists coming, and I audibly gasped at times. I had a lot of fun reading this book, and will need to wait and see if 1. I want to reread it and 2. what I think about it when I do to see if this ends up on my forever faves list. But it's a possibility. It was just so beautifully queer from the inside out, and the author says he was inspired to write this book because of queer revenge. I love that, and I feel that within the book, pulsing. I needed it.

Also, if you like Alex and Willie from Julie and the Phantoms, you will be drawn to the romance in this book, and to the love interest's story in general (not naming him in case it's a spoiler because it's a little slow at first).