It just didn't really work for me

Honestly this book was extremely depraved. The majority of the book was literally torture porn. If I found out someone I knew was getting off to stuff like this I would not feel safe around them, and I find it odd that reading this kind of stuff in books is seemingly more socially acceptable than it would be if they were just seeking it out online. I don't want to offend anyone but also I am very kink critical and I think if you like this kind of stuff you honestly need to examine why that is. Yes, it's fiction but it doesn't exist in a vacuum. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

Just uninterested 

Just too slow and not really engaging 

The concept of this was fine but the writing wasn't very good unfortunately. Its definitely not terrible but it felt a bit too forced and there was a lot of showing instead of telling. The pov changes were super confusing too.

I've never been a huge fan of Margaret Atwood and life is too short to read boring books

It was just boring for me honestly 

DNF'd this book at 34% (chapter 10)

Honestly, I found this book offensive and uncomfortable from the beginning, but it was short so I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt and stick it out, see if it got better. It didn't seem to.

Sora and Jack are both very shallow characters. They're extremely negative and judgemental to basically everyone around them. I get that because a lot of the people around them seem like cartoon villains in a very strange way. 

Sora especially complains a lot about being judged, yet she's walking around peering into people's grocery carts and deciding what kind of people they are based on what they eat.

Jack complains that all women (except Sora, the woman he's been in love with since kindergarten despite losing contact after fifth grade) are shallow and vapid, while claiming that anyone who makes 'kissy lips' in a photo couldn't possibly hold a conversation.

Both characters have a lot of internalized fatphobia and their opinions about their and other people's bodies are uncomfortable to say the least. When Sora described certain kinds of belly's as 'gross' I was about ready to stop reading, but like I said, I stuck it out.

It's possible this book does get better in the other 2/3 but I honestly did not enjoy the writing style either. If you don't mind judgy characters and you like childhood friends to lovers trope then you may enjoy this book. It wasn't for me.

Thanks to Netgalley and to St Martin's Press for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed the premise and idea of this book however the prose was not engaging enough for me.

I didn't hate it I just didn't care enough