This books first story is not at all what this book is being sold as. I read through reviews to try and suss out if other people felt similarly. I saw many reviews about how it seems more like a travel dairy than a book about the last lesbian bars in America. More about the journey and not really much about the destination? And I really wanna know about the destination! :(

Listened to the audiobook and there are too many characters to listen to I got lost. May try this again in print later. 

MC annoying as helllll

saw a spoiler of what happens and said NOPE IM OUT

I really love the story and what every character is silently going through, unfortunately I will not see the pay off. The time jumps with no warning and switch of POV have thrown me off numerous times. As well as how dense the writing is. Beautiful story for someone, just not me. 

This book is going to be extraordinary to someone, that someone just wasn’t me. I picked this up on a whim with a gift card I got, and loved the writing. The story didn’t captivate me as I wished it would. I think I need to know more about South Korean politics in order for it to be more gripping? 

Loved the narrative prose though! 

The story was dragging on and it felt like it was going nowhere. Cute book, but I just couldn’t push through. 

I have tried for hours to get myself into these stories and I simply cannot. I understand what Lima was trying to say in telling these stories, do I think it was the right choices? No. Did some of it work for me? Yes. 

I liked Rapture and Ghost Story and Antropófaga and really loved the alt chapters. 

I loved the depiction of the devil in this, in one of the book blurbs this collection is suggested to lovers of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and I can see why. The devil is sleek and mysterious not the evil deviant the writer thinks he’d be. 

But other than that it was all very lackluster to me. I do also feel this is marketed as the wrong genre? It didn’t feel very horror to me, but I understand why it could be viewed as such?

Thank you netgalley and Tor Publishing Group for this arc. 

Thank you Simon and Shuster for giving me an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. 

Unfortunately I did not make it past 25% of this book. I could not get into it. I was super interested in the plot, but felt no connection to the story at all. It felt so dry and very stream of conscious which I can normally do, but I think the lack of depth of thinking made this one difficult for me to follow further. 

DNF @ 37% the story went in a direction I didn’t think it would and I lost interest. Would still rec to certain friends just not for me!