This was a fun and exciting novel to read through and it contains quite a bit of information about how queer people, specifically lesbians, live their lives in their ideas of ‘normal’. The main character, Sasha, spends time upstate with their boyfriend, Jesse, and some of their semi close lesbian friends. As the holiday time away progresses, tensions rise and the kittycats come out to play, literally. This was a deep dive into the framework of relationships and just how close one can be pushed to their limit before they explode.

I thoroughly enjoyed the writing style of this book. The author has a unique way of describing scenarios or personalities and they were not afraid to portray the ‘evil’ characteristics that we all secretly harbor. The characters themselves were interesting to watch and analyze, each one setting the tone for that generation of ‘lesbian’.

There are quite a few scenes where the focus jumps back to the past, and while these were interesting and quite additive to the overall current story, the transition between past and present was murky and I found myself a lot of the time re-reading sections because I could not decipher if this was taking place in the past or present.

(TW: bodily harm, abuse, explicit sexual activity)