Alright everybody gird your fucking loins because I'm about to go on the rampage of the century right now. I normally would never go in this hard on a book but HERE WE ARE. I've never been tricked before like this book tricked me, I'm furious. ALSO I finished this book on my birthday. I spent a portion of my birthday having to endure the fuckass ending of this atrocity. MAJOR spoilers ahead, I understand that this book is popular so y'all will more than likely consider reading it at one point or another if you're an avid reader, I'm gonna tell you exactly why you should save your $17.99.

My Lament.

Holy balls where do I begin. This book intrigued me at first 1. because of the reviews, 2. because of the cover (sorry) 3. because of the initial voice that the author used. At the start I felt very similarly to how I felt when reading Interesting Facts About Space, the voice was exactly like how I think to myself, which is super appealing to me personally. That feeling was incredibly short-lived. First, I got really really bored because not a whole lot was happening, and, even worse, the book became confusing to read altogether. The voice switched back and forth between the narrator's thoughts and speech and the made up dialogue that they imagined for other characters? Idfk it was so dumb, and about 100 pages in I almost quit because I was bored as hell. And then, the entire plot FLIPPED ON ITS HEAD 720 it became so obnoxiously absurd that I couldn't NOT read more to find out where the hell it was going!

The mc went crazy, was drugged on TOP of that, became a part of a cult of girls that created bunny-men mutants (idk how??? never explained that.) that they used for literary INSPIRATION. IT WAS SO SO SO ANNOYINGGGG they were all a bunch of stuck up loonies it was wild. So I basically had no idea where this all was going, but I still tried.

I was confused and pissed off for the majority of the duration that I read this book, there was a pseudo-queer relationship (idk don't ask me) and so that was intriguing to me, of course. And finally, when there were legit like- 20 PAGES LEFT, guess what. You'll never believe it! The mc imagined the entire fuckin plot, and her friend/lover was a fucking SWAN that she IMAGINED TO BE A HUMAN PERSON FOR A WHOLE YEARRRRRR. YES, A SWAN. A BIRD. SHE WAS KEEPING A BIRD IN A HOUSE FOR A YEAR? wtf. We are grown ass ADULTS reading what should be a GROWN ASS ADULT BOOK. WHY ARE WE IMAGINING THINGS TO THIS DEGREE. What a cop out ending, this could've gone in so many other directions but NOOOOOOOOO. Oh my god I felt so tricked, I literally only continued because I thought the ending would smash it out of the park. I was FOOLED OH MYGODDDDD it was so stupid!!! There was no real theme or point either, like what???? I hated this! and also, get ready, the characters were all EARLY-MID TWENTY YEAR OLDS. GROWN WOMEN ACTING LIKE MIDDLE SCHOOLERS. How idiotic. BOOOOOOOO TOMATO TOMATOOOO

Final Notes

Don't read this if you like yourself. I'm sorry to this woman, but if you don't want a teenager to rage over your book then maybe you need to reevaluate your writing capabilities.

Read 1/15/26-1/26/26, I give it 0.7/5 stars.