I did enjoy the scene where she emits too much light and gets chased by butterflies. I also appreciated that the mythology was based on Chinese myths and not the standard Greek/Roman pantheon.

But. Do you really expect me to believe that a 33 year old woman who has just gained immortality would give it up in trade for basically nothing in return just because this dumb guy she has known for three days isn't ready to be in a relationship? Honestly, after three days, it would be scarier if he was!

I don't know why MacAlister's books are all like this. The hero and heroine never fit well together. The humor is forced. The pacing is terrible.

This was SO STUPID and predictable but it still made me tear up. So three stars it is, because I am a romantic deep down.

Good god this is bad.

Typical Evanovich. A silly, light-hearted mystery with a plot that makes no sense but you stick around anyway because it's kind of funny and zips right along.

Imagine all the emotional impact of Watership Down compacted into a twenty minute read.

0 - 24% I hated this book because it was SO TEENAGER.

25% I thought I figured out a plot twist and was back in.

50% I realized my guess was wrong, but I was even more in.

100% I had a lot of feelings.

This book made me cry multiple times, literal tears running down my face while reading in high sunshine in the pool. But it also was irritating and difficult to read because the main character is SO FUCKING ANNOYING JESUS CHRIST.

And then there's the dad. The dad who is a cop. The dad who is a cop who punched a witness and doesn't get fired because all his brothers in blue say he's really a good guy. And that, more than anything, is stopping me from giving this book a good review. Because this is untimely and tone deaf and frustrating. (You can read his words on it here.)

So I'm leaving this book without a rating. Read it, if you want a heartfelt YA. Read it for its brilliant and wonderful cast full of queer characters. Read it for its bitingly hilarious and zippy dialogue. Read it if you love superheroes with soul. But read it knowing that the cops don't learn the lesson they need to, and read it like it was written, as if it existed before the past year's reckoning.

It's a little sad but I get why there aren't any more of these.

Contextually it's a young adult book, but stylistically and content-wise it feels like an adult book, and that combination does not work for me. I don't know who the target audience is, but I struggled with the swings from extreme grotesquerie to tender first romance. Too many things going on and none of them were fleshed out.