Honestly, this book felt like an LJ Shen story — a wild rollercoaster of angst, cruelty, and raw vulgarity intertwined with surprisingly sweet and heartfelt moments from the characters' points of view. The story unfolds through multiple perspectives, which caught me off guard since it wasn’t mentioned in the summary. While that added some depth to the side plots, I found myself mostly uninterested in them, craving more focus on James, June, and William. The narrative is bogged down with unnecessary details about trivial matters, leaving key plot points underdeveloped until the final 10 chapters. Until then, it felt like just filler. As it stands, this book could serve as a solid outline for a story that delves much deeper into the characters’ backgrounds — but sadly, it doesn’t quite get there. Given that it’s part of a series, it makes sense that this first installment leaves a lot unresolved, stretching across 415 pages of unfinished business.
If you love multiple POV's, love triangles, Wattpad books, dramaaa and specifically rich people drama, then this book is for youuu. Thank you to Netgalley for providing me an eARC of this book. There were two things that originally drew me to the book. 1. It's a Wattpad book, and generally I love these types of books, you know exactly what you can expect. 2. The book is being turned into a movie by none other than PRIME VIDEO! Now to my thoughts and feelings. First of all, it definitely had that typical Wattpad vibe, if you know, you know. Personally I love the vibe, but I think maybe it was a little overdone in this book. The book is translated from Italian to English and I definitely could tell at some points in the book, because either the translation just felt a bit odd or it actually did not make sense. Like something that sounds like it should be a play on words, but it doesn't make sense in English. Or the character referencing something the other character said, but they never said that. It's a bit hard to explain but if you read it you' probably get it. The characters also just seemed a little childish. Both when it comes to how they spoke and acted. They go from loving each other to hating each other and back to loving each other within a few seconds. What I usually love about Wattpad books is the chemistry between the characters and unfortunately I didn't really feel it in this book. I think the main problem was that there were too many characters and we practically got to see every single one of them's POV at some point in the book. It felt a bit unnecessary. June is definitely the main character and there are two love interests which POV I also wanted to see more, but instead I got a bunch of POV's with small side stories that just didn't really interest me. This also meant that the book was 415 pages, but even at the end it didn't feel like we got anywhere with the main story. Another thing that annoyed me a bit was that it was often hard to tell who was saying what because there was very few dialogue tags and there wasn't dont anything else to make it clear who was talking. This is just one of my pet peeves. With all that being said though... I am super excited to see the movie. I think this book has such great potential, especially in a movie format and I can't wait for it. I think the book covers some really important subjects and I think that could also be shown really well in a movie. I also loved the banter between the characters and I definitely had times where I couldn't stop myself from reading(the typical effect of Wattpad books). Overall I would recommend the book if you're able to overlook some of the writing and if you don't mind having a lot of different stories at once.
É diventato il mio libro (e poi serie) preferito in pochissimo, mi sono affezionata subito ai personaggi e alla storia, è coinvolgente ma la scrittura lenta a volte può essere pesante.