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Beautiful book! It gives me some much needed hope.

A fun read. Is not going quite as I expected. It's nice to be surprised.

Very disappointing. The boy is an unbelievably nice guy, particularly given his parentage and lifetime of trauma. Even worse, as soon as he pats the woman on the head and treats her with minimal human decency, she stops being an interesting, independent, intelligent character and becomes instead 100% invested in him. Boring. I expected better from this author, given her videos. She's smart and funny.

Quite a lot of fun.

I cannot finish this. The characters are cardboard cutouts, the main character behaves like someone a decade younger, there are absurd inconsistencies throughout. The sexual interactions scream "I have no experience, just teenage fantasies". Also, the toxic trope being obsessed with an emotionally inaccessible man who is my superior in every measurable way AND to whom I am in thrall, disgusts me. Gross.

Excellent!

I'm having a hard time liking Pali. Fortunately, the story is good enough to keep me reading despite that - very rare for me.

I really appreciated that there was only the hint of potential romance in some distant future.