Just wanted to see if there would be a read along this fall? OR if anyone is planning on reading something from the list and we could RAL together?

Does the spark between this two ignates sometime? The "rival to lovers" feels so forced. Both of them feel to me nore like friends with rivalry than potential lovers 😭. Also, the fact that Jack was abused by the whole town doesn't help at all. He's doing too much for his abusers. And that includes his "rival" (childhood bully/friend).

And the mystery of the girls and the secondary characters are a bit more interesting that the story of the romance. I'm sorry, but it feels like a check point in a list of "What a book of fantasy should contain".