I'll be honest — I wouldn't have finished this if not for a) its years-long presence on my TBR and b) its perfect fulfillment of a 2019 PopSugar prompt. I can't remember when or why I got it into my head that I wanted to read this series, but I suspect that it started with middle school me, who may or may not have enjoyed this more.

Anyway. The maturity of the characters and writing style is more MG/lower YA, which isn't inherently bad but doesn't work with the story being told. Logan continually jumps to conclusions, only to be proven wrong but learn nothing so the cycle repeats; it was exhausting to read and the "twists" really weren't all that exciting.The morality is very black-and-white, even when the she's bullying a classmate or slut-shaming her own friends. I feel like there's supposed to be some kind of moral portrayed, about astrology and/or trust and/or something, but I can't pin it down.

I was also genuinely confused, because for some reason I thought I was reading the first book in the series — so the constant references to a past incident (and Logan's main romantic storyline being

Spoiler

the boyfriend off in Ireland with hints of love triangle on both ends

) just baffled me. Maybe I would've cared more if I'd started with the actual first book and been invested in the characters, but if it's anything like this one I don't think it would've worked out any better.

content warnings:

Spoiler

slut-shaming, bullying (physical, verbal, cyber), relationships with age gap (underage + twenty-something)

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CONVERSION: 5.3 / 15 = 2 stars

Prose: 4 / 10
Characters & Relationships: 3 / 10
Emotional Impact: 1 / 10
Development / Flow: 6 / 10
Setting: 5 / 10

Diversity & Social Themes: N/A
Intellectual Engagement: N/A
Originality / Trope Execution: 2 / 5
Rereadability: N/A
Memorability: 1 / 5