Falling Into Place

With only like 60 pages left of the book I was so ready to drop it. But then again, it was only 60 pages out of 200-something so I thought I'd make an effort and keep reading. The effort was very brief as I only read the start of the following paragraphs and, not surprising at all, I got everything that was happening. This book made me think of a really bad soap opera.

But it's my fault, really, I didn't check the tags/themes before reading it. Or maybe I did, but didn't pay attention, didn't really think about it, I don't know. What I want to say is that this book is 'gay-for-you' and I cannot even explain how infuriating this bit has been for me. And okay, good for them, whatever, but the way it was highlighted in the book felt so toxic to me, the characters, Milo especially, went the extra mile to make sure everyone know they are not gay. It was like the word gay tainted them in a way. The whole thing kind of pissed me off.

Why did I not drop it sooner? I was a fool. I saw the word 'schoolboy' where usually I would come across 'schoolgirl' and I thought, yes, this is a sensible writer, this is going to be great. I was so, so wrong. I fell into the trap.

Among the things I also didn't like about the book is how insensitive it was. There was a lot happening, sad stuff, and the characters were so focused on themselves sometimes. Complete disregard for what sad thing just happened.

And the interaction between them, the dialogue, was so tactless. The characters started really intimate discussions with no warning whatsoever when they barely just met. Who even does that?

And the way everyone saw everything and were all-knowing about what's happening between Scott and Milo when said characters didn't even know if it was day or not was so cringe. It's like they were all highly trained clairvoyant psychologists. Amazing stuff.

And there's probably some other things I could add, about how this book is written, how it suddenly changed focus, how the chapter lengths was so inconsistent (maybe that's a small thing to pick on, but I like when chapters are roughly the same length), and how despite the start of the book being really interesting and intriguing, I disliked it more and more every chapter. Would not recommend.