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I wanted so bad to love this book with all my heart, but it just didn’t quite have the impact I thought it would. The Husband Stitch, Inventory, and Difficult at Parties were the standouts for me among the short stories, though I did still have to do a fair bit of online reading to fully grasp what analogies the story was making. The story that truly made zero sense to me was Especially Heinous, in that one especially I find the points the author is trying to make about violence, feminism, and fetishizing peoples terrible experiences is buried under flowery (albeit incredible) writing, and artsy imagery and descriptions. This collection had that problem overall for me. I think I may try this one again when I’ve had more life experiences, I believe that will improve my understanding.

This book was a beautiful represtation of love. In fact one of the most complex and honest depictions of it that I have ever read. The characters were so loveable, and the sheer amount of queer joy in this book is amazing. 4.5 stars, simply because Tatums perspective fell flat a bit for me at times. But overall, one amazing story. Probably the best queer love story I’ve read, and I would marry Carson if I could.

This was incredible and infuriating, some things were amazing and deeply thought provoking, and others made zero sense. Mixed bag, but overall pretty good!

God this was bad. Like colossally bad. It was trying so so hard to be this edgy dark romance, but the author still seemed to want everyone to be like lawful good and weirdly vanilla for a book that claims to be such a wild unbelievable tale. And then there was the humor. I think I’ve read science textbooks with better jokes. It was weird and really cringey and the smut was SO BAD. This author should high key just pay for my therapy bc what the hell was that.

Holy crap…this was a fucking wild ride. The writing is beautiful, the characters and their relationships are so well studied and thought through, and the last 100 pages put me closer to cardiac arrest than anything I’ve read so far this year. The story and structure was a tiny bit to heavy on the classic “YA capitalize random things because that makes it sound cooler, also look a love triangle” but otherwise, this is a masterpiece. The commentary on classism, racism and female friendships were SO well done in my opinion this author is hella talented.