I stopped because of the heavy trigger warnings that happened at the halfway mark. The writing & pacing up until this point was also off, though the art is beautiful

Please check the trigger warnings before you go into this book. I don’t think they are handled in good manner, instead just throwing the triggers ||pedophilia, sexual assault, incestous harassment/assault from a stepsister|| and more

Love the idea and its cute but not in the mood for it right now, going to try to read this again in the future!

I received an ARC copy and I had trouble getting past the first 3 stories. 2 out of the 3 had major ethical issues that I had a hard time continuing the stories. 

In one, we see a sex therapist-like main character who has sex with clients who mainly have mental hurdles to climaxing. I like the normalizing of talking about sexual wellness and sex work, but the problem arose when the main character then dated their client, but tried to justify it by saying it was much more like dating your physical therapist than a psychological therapist, even when there is a lot of mental work that goes into their therapeutic relationship. As someone with a mental health therapist, I couldn’t get past the ethical issues posed to enjoy this story.

In another, we see a teen try to unwillingly “trans” the gender of transphobes in their life. I understand the purpose as a trans person is to show the hypocrisy of not allowing body autonomy, but as someone who is also disabled and often doesn’t get complete say in their medical treatment from backwards doctors, taking away bodily autonomy from anyone, even those I hate, makes me have a visceral reaction. I think this goes into my abolitionist thinking versus punitive thinking, but again I couldn’t get behind this story with the major ethics issues at the forefront.

Others may enjoy this book if you enjoy looking at what unethical decisions supporters by the main characters say about the world we live in and how we should change it. Other stories might be much better later on as well, but for now my arc copy has expired after being turned off of the book for too long.

My copy of the ARC expired, interested to read more of this!

Did not finish before my library hold expired; first chapter was heavier than I expected from the title and took me longer to read

Great book, but the siren love interest basically named herself my bf’s mom’s name, and I’m not about to read a sex scene with a vampire & my bf’s mom

Recommend to people who don’t have a mom in their life named Mirla

Want to come back, I was listening through audiobook & now I can hardly hear through ear infection

Great book, will try to return to it later

Not in right place for this book, but beautiful book

Great book with great narration. I’ve had a hard time consuming content by ear so I did not finish the book during my library hold. I hope to get back to the book at a time I can be more invested, because it’s a very good read!