Ratings4
Average rating3.5
Who Boy that was Bad. I mean like Seriously bad. There's a Lot to unpack here honestly, from the way it sexualized the 16 year old main character, to the way it slut shammed a character in the Next Chapter, to the Blatant Terf ideology (you know, all or at least most men are evil monsters, the only women who are powerful are the ones who can have periods, ect), to the weird almost fetishizing way periods were talked about, it was Bad. This definitely shouldn't be marked as YA either, considering how graphic the sex scenes are. I skipped a Lot of this book because it was That bad. Even skipping, I could keep up with the whole plot, the writing was also that slow. Also, changing writing styles in the middle of the book and then going back yo your original style of writing only works if you're a good writer. Which was Decidedly not the case here. This is only a “feminist” retelling if your feminism is only about abled cis-women, and if it is, that's not real feminism. I'm black listing this author for sure, as I don't want to even try to read anymore of her books.