Had to hop on the computer to write this out. I had been going back and forth about dropping this book, and did one final attempt to finish the last little bit. It filled me with so much loathing I knew I had to DNF.

This book felt like the author had a bunch of OCs and wanted to write about their history and conversations between them with some "witty banter." So she made up a plot where they all interact, great right? Except... I got more than halfway in with absolutely nothing happening? There is definitely SUPPOSED to be something high stakes happening. We're told about it! Repeatedly! Instead we got back and forth from the past to the present to get a background on our leading male character, Fox. Also, I would say in the first 15% of the book, we rehash the same scene like 3 different times? Like we go back and forth talking about the same thing that has already been established. Sometimes this can be really cool, especially if you kind of see a scene in two different perspectives. Except it just felt like in the writing process the author had written some lines, then moved them to a different section, and forgot to delete them from the original spot. I was like oh.. this is on purpose? We sure?

I'm really sorry but the characters are so boring. At first glance, they all seem really really cool. Except it's just like... they're kind of just hanging around talking? It feels like we don't really see them DO anything.

I'm gonna say it... the writing was purple prose. Now I personally love really beautiful writing, but similar to Orbital, I found so many lines (especially in the Interlude chapters) to just be trying SO hard to be deep and philosophical. It just made me roll my eyes. Like I said for Orbital, not every line needs to be quotable.

Truly, this is not a book to read if you are interested in a plot or even characters DOING something. If you're interested in reading about an author's OCs and want to see them interact and talk... you might like this.

DNF 77%
It’s giving “I’ve had a bunch of OCs I’ve created over the years since middle school that really don’t have a single thing to do with each other but I’m gonna pick them up and smush the whole crowd into one confusing book.”
Problem is, these OCs (original characters) are 0% interesting because I haven’t spent my whole life loving them and building their back story like Olivie Blake has. No, I only get a passing glimpse through a narrow, foggy window and that my friends just isn’t enough. I’m still confused about what “the game” the whole book has been about even is and I’ve read 3/4th of it. I cannot dedicate more hours to this. I’m sorry.