Competent but not my thing.

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I could not get into this one; I carried it around with me for a week, going one or two pages at a time but never truly becoming immersed. I know it's petty, but I really struggled to see these characters as teenagers, and every time their ages came up I had a major moment of disjointure, and felt pulled out of the story by my disbelief. On the one hand, I'm conscious that it's possible for teens to have experienced hardships early in life that make them mature more quickly than the average, but I also have a problem when it's teens pulling off seductions and running internationally renown hotels. They just felt like ... thirty year olds, maybe? Even thirty is incredibly young to be running a hotel. ANY hotel. Yeah, yeah, magic, etc. I get it. It just didn't work all that well for me in this particular instance, and that's on me, not the author.