I received this ARC from Book Funnel, and these thoughts are my own.

There are two main parts to this novel. Whilst this is one story, the viewpoint does change, which takes the story elsewhere.

The characters are beautifully written. The main romantic relationship is warm, comfortable, and familiar - this radiates from the pages.

The plot is really interesting. I had never really given much thought as to what would happen or how immortality was lost. The first half of this book was, without a doubt, my favourite. It was intentionally a bit confusing to make us empathise with the characters we're reading.

Personally, I was more interested in the MC couple rather than Daisy, and so some parts were a lot more interesting than others. I can tell she is going to be a character others absolutely adore.

I am the kind of person who gets drawn to a book by its cover first. I think the cover is very clever, but it took a while for it to woo me into reading this book.

Kuang has written the most perfect unreliable, three-dimensional main character I feel like I've ever read. I despise people like June who can't see beyond their own nose, but Kuang really shows the humanity in her mistakes that make us empathise with June all the same.

I found it difficult to put this book down. There was only a short chapter or two where I was left thinking, "So when does the juicy stuff happen?" After completing the novel, this was actually extremely clever as it brought the reader into a false sense of security as well as June herself.

The story moved along wonderfully, and even the most background characters had real personalities. This novel could be read in multiple ways, a left wing person reads this as a woman being rightfully exposed. I feel like a right wing person would read this as someone being bullied for dumb shit.

Over all, this white lefty loves this novel and hope to see more like it from Rebecca F. Kuang.