Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Swain's books tend to be hit or miss for me and her last couple of publications have been absolute misses. That being said, I'm a huge fan of the Miles series and I've been looking forward to reading this for months! I even pre-ordered, and read it this morning the first chance I got. What. A. Joke. I'm barely 10 percent in and I can't bring myself to read anymore. It's an absolute chaotic mess with horrifically unlikable characters and incredibly degrading language concerning women's bodies. It's positively unhinged. One of the first characters we meet is a so-called 'sexually liberated' man who describes himself as being 'too into to women to call himself completely gay' but then spends several paragraphs making it clear how repulsive he finds female bodies. I've been able to stomach Swain's internalized misogyny and toxic view of sexuality and attraction before but this was just entirely too much. I might have made an effort to power through if either of the main characters were either remotely interesting.