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This book is the one-night-stand-child of rote, formulaic fantasy parts of Kingkiller Chronicles with the worst, ignorant-and-horny-teens parts of Wheel of Time

The story seems to avoid any actual conflict, merrily setting up the characters for immature pauses of non-communicative, passive-aggressive ignoring. Their whole relationship centers on carrying around baggage with each other and non-acknowledgement of emotions. Creepy old Sam notices every last detail about Sadie without ever just...I don't know... asking her how she fucking feels?!?!.

This book is amazingly repetitive. She mentions that the trend of longevity has reversed and people are dying younger. She mentions this over 4 times in the first 1% of the book. You could fall asleep with the audiobook on and not miss anything when you wake up because she’ll say everything again.

Is it trendy that books be written with hyperboles, accentuated by unnecessary, long metaphors? Must characters be the extremes of personality spectrums? Is YA Romance cliches the genre? What is this? I don’t understand. Is it “modern”?

If you want a book where the main male gives off incel vibes and the main girl is everything glamorous, go for it. Meanwhile, please hold my hair.

Another book that got returned to the library before I could finish it. These popular science books really don't appeal to me. I find that they get repetitive quickly, and a lot of them re-use and recycle ideas from other books (this one contains many echoes of Predictably Irrational and Thinking Fast and Slow). Maybe one day I'll find it again to finish.

This book is repetitive, very clear in its anti-"Right" bias, and quite a slog. After renewing it so many times that my next renewal request got denied, this book shall now be on hold indefinitely.