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Solidly young adult. It's dark, but still YA. If this hadn't been labeled as adult on Goodreads and pushed as such on TikTok I might not have wasted my time with it. Probably should have stopped reading when I was slogging through the second part. I'm not at all motivated to keep reading this series, which is a bummer because the first part was very good. Impressive premise and scope from the author but this needed more editing and shaping. As it is this is somewhat over-hyped.

The plot is mostly just a vehicle to get from one sex scene to the next. Characters feel very juvenile. There are wolf shapeshifters but no knotting. And the dystopian elements are either not fleshed out or don't go far enough in my opinion. I kept waiting for the horrifying secret eugenics plot, but there was none. This could stand to have some major editing removing some of the video game playing and adding world building.