All dialogue. Very overproduced for my taste. 

The description missed some major information - like the journalist focus on p^rn. Nothing wrong with that, but the marketing on this book is just wrong. I’m very ace and I just am not interested. 

I know it is short but the singing…no thank you. 

It is evident that the author is not a social scientist and by dismissing cognitive empathy the book set off to be ablest from the start. 

Started out unique and interesting. But just started to feel like every other YA novel. 

No fault of the book. It was just easy to tell two chapters in that this was a book that I was no longer interested in. 

I was so excited for this book I actually requested a paper arc from the publisher. I adored Felix Ever After and wanted to read more by the same author, especially their YA Fantasy debut. My first reading obstacle was that so many sentences start with someone’s name. I tried to brush it off as a preference as I am also editing now also. Then there are half developed scenes that just drop off suddenly. 

Again this is more a preference so I went on. The rep is phenomenal with a trans man as our main character with a genderfluid and cis man as love interests. There was more emphasis on the romance than the world building, but the world has potential. But the romance feels flat to me. I don’t get why they like each other.  But the final straw was describing how to throw a punch is just so wrong. 

“Never hold your thumb on the outside of your fingers”…moving the thumb so it was tucked inside instead.” And later “You even tucked in your thumb.” I tried to play it off as it could just be the wrong word but there is no way. This is basic research and I just can’t anymore. So I’m DNF’ing it. 

Nothing has happened. Voyerism. Word chooses that take you out of the story and make you realize sentences are fragmented. I really wanted to love this, but I have no connection at this point, and according to the other reviews that probably won’t change.