im so glad i saved this one as a treat because it's a quick yet remarkable read i read in one sitting and stayed up past my bedtime for... bi4bi thriller romance, experimental fiction, liminal spaces... trans mc, latine mc, neurodivergent mc's.. everything i could ever want from a book... i love the experimental formatting and genre bending and all the details work to elevate the storytelling.. the characters leave strong impressions and the dual pov showcases their distinctive voices.. i love flawed and developed characters.. i love how obsessive chiara is... hashtague my literal dream girl..!! going feral.. and jasper.... i love bi men to the point of sickness..... i want to put them in a box and shake them idk .. also the setting itself is its own character.. a liminal bus, lucid dreams.. disorienting like i wanted it to be.. the tension infused with the dream elements and setting just works so well... and the romance... they're stuck together... she's obsessed... he's in lorve... them against the literal universe... the banter.. they understand eachother... theyre in this together.. (crying) i would describe this book as a hallucinatory psychological thriller romance for fans of house of leaves.. even the title blew me away because it's an acrostic!! i love codes and puzzles.. im just in awe.. i feel i need to read again to search for details i missed and that's how rich the writing is.. i need more omg “Jasper, don’t you DARE LEAVE ME ALONE AGAIN!”

"What would you say if no one were watching? Something funny, so the night becomes less lonely?"

arc review! an m/m enemies to lovers literary and genre bending mystery-romance... the writing is lucid and the imagery and semiotics are striking... its so beautifully layered i want to pore over every detail again! i love the characters and how they were introduced, they have very particular personalities refined into the smallest of details and every choice felt so natural... i heavily related to them in lots of respects lol this has got to be one of my favorite depictions of enemies to lovers. like. they hate eachother and cant stop thinking about each other and the tension theyre so unhinged omg like help i love this

Ran Tea "Miyamoto Ran wasn’t someone you could mess with."

Eizo Coffee "Besides, romance was the last thing on his mind. Romance was always the last thing on his mind."

some of these lines are so rawly hilarious "Time to pluck those feathers off the stem, Little Motherfucker." and the enemies to lovers tension... "Eizo felt like he was prey."

every twist and every detail landed... the layers to the narrative and the characters had me hooked... THE TENSIONN I CANT STOP SMILING I NEED TO STARE AT THE ART OF THEM

i had my theories and suspicions... the craft, the layers, im still thinking ab it... the ending... WHAT???? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ???!!! I NEED BOOK 2!!!!