why am i half way and there's no body gore or horror just gratuitous sex and annoying writing. dpmo.

i grew up with an insufferable grump and if i wanted to read about one i would manifest back to my childhood and experience that trauma all over again. no thanks.

Boring as fuck.

sorry i cannot read a book like this right now. i'll come back

It was interesting at first but became trite real quick. I did not care for the writing style, either. I think I was holding on for the "psychological" aspects of this novel but that seemed to fizzle out the second the "romance" and eroticism started around 50% of the way through? Meh. Just not for me.

Not the first DNF of 2025! Well, I gave it my best, but unfortunately this is just too vulgar and violent for me. I'm not prude-ish or anything, just not interested in reading something like this right now. It's not to be erased the violence that trans queens of color face, especially in this time period, and how most of them were homeless and sex workers to get by. I'm not mad at Cassara for painting this picture in the slightest. I guess if I cared about the overall story a bit more I could stomach it and continue but I don't find it worth it. Especially since I was feeling the story early on, and cared for the characters presented to us initially, but then it got boring around the middle section. Furthermore, reading other's impressions of this book, many find it to be fanfiction of real life queens who have, sadly, passed. Those featured in Paris is Burning and lots of nods to the TV show Pose, both of which I'm a fan of.

The writing is gorgeous and there's much to take away here. I do recommend it. I'm just not interested in continuing.

way worse than i could've imagined

don't care. don't wanna read graphic rape scenes either

i don't even care to slog through this and potentially put myself in a deeper slump for no reason 

Not enjoying this at all. I'm bored. Eve is pissing me off. I tried looking up spoilers and found out this is one of those books with an ending so open nobody knows wtf is going on. I'm not interested even in the slightest. Don't know why I'd slog through something for an ending that'll just piss me off