I'm really surprised to see people calling this book devoid of emotion and the characters flat. I get not liking Ani because she is awful and not meant to be liked, but she is nevertheless a fascinating character study because the story makes it evident how she intentionally designed herself into an ice-cold ultra-bitch as a form of armor, and that was fascinating to see dissected the way it was. Not to mention her main role model growing up being her superficial, social-climbing, self-absorbed mother whose treatment of her daughter was truly disgusting in a heartbreakingly banal way. All of it felt very real to me.