"... again and again he sliced off my sentences. Alright, so stricken. I was a dog with an electric collar around my neck, the remote in the defenses hand. Every time I spoke I felt this shock, turned around confused. I became wary of overstepping my bounds, wanting to avoid being cut off. He was teaching me to be afraid of speaking freely."

This part was particularly hard for me. To be in such a confusing, scary, tense situation to begin with is hard to grapple with, but then also having your words omitted, stricken, interrupted at a steady clip, and knowing it's all for the goal of minimizing accountability for the person who caused you to end up in this horrible situation to begin with.

I know that managing testimony is an important aspect of the criminal process, but surely we can find a more compassionate way to do it.

I have an awful memory, we’re talking nonexistent. I forget the MC’s name a week after finishing a book, no matter how good it was. Slowly, I forget and I forget and a month after almost nothing is left. Most of the books, I remember them by vibe only. Problem is, I hate rereading. It feels like a waste of time. So I just read and then I forget and then I read other books that I’ll also forget 🤷🏽‍♀️ I don’t know how to feel about that

Might be just me but I don’t like sex scenes in books that are considered cozy? Like it ruins the vibe of cutesy cute and then it turns spicy. As if you’re eating sweet cookies and then you eat one that has peppers.

This is very absurd. And silly. And WAY too pleased with its own cleverness. It absolutely reads like fanfiction, from the lack of real world-building to the poorly-defined characters to the reliance on snappy dialogue and sarcasm to carry the story. (Not to mention the Random Capitalizations of Things for Emphasis.) Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against fanfiction, I love plenty of it, but I was hoping for an actual book here and this is...not that. I don't hate it, but I don't know that I actually like it, either.