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Thanks to the publisher and Bookish First for giving me a free finished copy for review. It was sposed to be an ARC, but Corona messed that up too. #2020things

Anyway, I was hoping to enjoy this one more than I did. While there were elements I definitely liked, (the snark of the main character, Lilibet for a few pages, the cover) overall, this wasn't my cup of tea.

Right off the bat, I was thrown off by the weird made up language which is really just the author spelling English words in the most annoying way possible (certz instead of certainly, mereish instead of a little, comp instead of comprehend, you get the point, it was distracting AF until I got used to it like 250 pages in).

Other than that, I ain't digging the romance, bois and gorls. I'm not a huge fan of hate to love in the first place but this one was just so anticlimactic. "I hate you less than most people." Oh. Wow. Swoon. Where can I get me a heartless fucker like this to call my own? Nopies. That ain't the kinda romance that wets my willie.

Plotwise... well... erm... I guess it was okay. Lil boring if you want the truth. Prolly don't help that I ain't a big fan of YA fantasy or sci-fi, do it? There were definitely a few moments where I was finally engrossed in the story, but they were few and far between. I wanted much more.

More humor woulda been nice too. But that's prolly cuz I'm a damn goon. YA these days is always so serious. Why so serious? Oh, yeah. Right. #2020things

What else? What else? Oh. So many of the BIG MOMENTS just fell flat for me. I ain't gonna mess with spoilers but where I'm sposed to be very upset or maybe even sad, I just didn't give half a hamhock's rump.

The writing style was fine. Nothing outta this world. Nothing wrong with it though. Like I never found myself trying to stuff the pretty book in the paper shredder at work or nothing. It just wasn't for me.