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Aaaand cue fridging the love interest. 🙄 Jesus.

(And here I was, foolishly hoping I’d get to hear Summer’s story with her own voice instead of Silas constantly projecting for her about what she thought about him and everything.)

Aaaand cue fridging the love interest. 🙄 Jesus.

(And here I was, foolishly hoping I’d get to hear Summer’s story with her own voice instead of Silas constantly projecting for her about what she thought about him and everything.)

A couple of nice tense scenes, but they’re regularly interrupted by Silas being a horndog. Silas is a shitty POV character to be riding along with. Like, it’s not even presented as “being a distracted horndog is Silas’s flaw to overcome”, it’s presented as just normal, like the author isn’t aware it’s weird.

*sigh* This is getting less “cool people doing cool things” and more “cool-ish people who are doing technobabble but WAIT they are also SO SEKSY and check out this explicit foreplay.” Just… crass? Like, Vaseline on the camera lack of subtlety and a clear focus on crafting fantasy material for a male reader. My intent to actually finish this book is quickly dropping, and that takes some doing!

I’m loving the *premise* so far… but I have to say:

What the ever-loving hell is with the constant body-policing? A woman barely appears without an immediate reference to how she shouldn’t be eating what she ordered, or how her figure rates against her peers, or how she should eat a sammich. WT actual F?