Sorry, not going to spend more time on this. To the donate pile it goes.

The casual animal and human cruelty is not my bag, but the played up sexist religious town culture (it's basically puritan Salem but swap out Jesus for Demeter and witch hunts for human sacrifices) combined with the intense "not like other girls" energy of the main character is also a huge turnoff. I've read too many books with this backstory, and I don't get the sense that I'm going to find anything else I particularly like in this story and these characters. 

Not for me, but maybe for a different reader. The adiobook narrator is doing a good job.

Can't do it. Rolling my eyes too much to read more. The audiobook narrator is doing her best, though. 

I don't know if it's intentional because it's trying to be funny, but the quality of the writing is just awful. I avoided picking this book up for a week because the prose put me off so much. It's time to admit defeat and DNF. 

I've tried reading this book like 3 times and I never get past the first few pages before I switch to something else. Best to mark it as DNF for now, maybe I'll go back to it someday.

Won this in a giveaway. Tried the first book in the series and had to DNF it. Never gonna make it to this one.

"She was dressed provocatively: Daisy Dukes, bikini top, several piercings, nose, ears, and belly button, black eyeliner. Maybe the eyelashes were not hers."
I've heard enough. This is too much like a parody of men writing women.

Present tense isn't my favorite, but I could have pushed past it like I have for plenty of other books where I was interested in the characters and plot. This feels less like a character driven story and more like a satirical writing exercise where the characters aren't meant to be whole people, and that type of thing isn't my jam. What really gave me the DNF feeeling is that this book seems too cynical and mean-spirited in the tone. I get that the main character is going through it, but my ex husband also had an affair and left me during the pandemic and I still can't relate to the main character and her attitude, or at least the tone of the narrator. 

The main character is too exhausting. I hope and pray she has some character development so she stops treating everyone so badly. Even if you can't trust people, you would at least want to be decently polite to not draw negative attention to yourself? It's very much a tell don't show sort of writing where the main character had some kind of nebulous training that makes her able to perform all kinds of feats off-page like weaseling her way into a school and climbing down a building unnoticed. If this was a dual perspective romance then maybe I could have made my way through it with breaks from her POV, but I do not care at all about this world or these people. 

If you are absolutely desperate for a generic enemies-to-lovers marriage-of-convenience he-falls-first (is that a spoiler if it's obvious from the moment he's on the page?) and have read all of the other ones, then maybe read this one?

This felt a little too immature for me, it is YA so maybe an actual teen would enjoy it more. I probably could have pushed through if I had liked the characters, but the three POVs were all unpleasant and/or tedious in different ways. I have many books I want to read, so it didn't feel worth spending more time on this one. 

I remember enjoying Feed by M.T. Anderson when I was a teenager, and a bookseller recommend this one. The premise sounded really interesting and I was in the mood for something a bit different after reading a lot of contemporary romances, but unfortunately this writing style isn't working for me. It's dense in a way that seems to be emulating older classics, and it's also trying to be funny, and the combination of the forced humor and style makes it just feel nonsensical. I won't be able to connect with any of these people or this plot.