The main character, Hannah, is so dislikable I couldn’t finish the book. She just made me angry at how cynical, snarky, rude, obsessive, and self-centered she was. It ruined the book for me and made it a DNF.

I tried but finally had enough. DNF. The main character had a giant chip on her shoulder, was ridiculously defensive and offended with other military groups, externally emotional, and on the brink of handing over confidential secrets to her boyfriend. Not believable as someone who could hack it in that arena where that would be the daily environment/choices.

Thanks to Netgalley for advanced copy of this book. All opinions are mine.

I can’t do it. DNF at 25%. The main character Kay is a spiteful and bitter child and it feels like just reading a constant antagonistic tantrum.

This was a DNF for me. The writing was so wordy and laborious and there was very little dialogue in the book, it was impossible for me to get into the story and relate to the characters. From the beginning it felt like a really hard start like you just got thrown into the story with no context. Even after a chapter or two I was trying to figure out what in the world was happening or why the characters where doing or thinking anything that was being described. So much especially went into the immediate feelings of Lilli but completely without a given reason. The characters were detached and seemed either immature, socially inept, and unlikeable in how they related to each other, or were just poorly created and unrealistic. I finally gave up.

Thanks to Netgalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Extremely disturbing. Had to stop reading it when it just kept getting worse. So incredibly dark and demented....

I can’t. The girl is literally psychotic.

DNF. There was a real lack of depth, detail, and emotion that made the events in general but especially the panic attacks seem disconnected and like it was pretend even tho it wasn’t. Add to that the panic attacks, and therefore the trauma associated with them, being completely trivialized and invalidated often, was annoying until the therapist did it too and then it just became absurd and insulting.