Feels like it was written in the eighties and lightly updated to the early aughts. I did like parts of it, but overall this had problematic stuff that's awful hard to look over.

Lots of casual misogyny, heavily defined gender roles, copaganda, poor treatment of houseless folks, overblown reactions to weed, and an underage sex scene between a 14&16yo that was was VERY descriptive and felt gross (I fast forwarded through it, what I did hear made me feel incredibly icky).

Delightful romance! I've admittedly watched and enjoyed the TV show, and so I happily signed on to read the books, which definitely take the plot and characters in some different directions - so a fun way to be in the same universe with some newish story. The book was overall super enjoyable and I'm on to the second - my main issue is the way the male characters sometimes talk to and think about women, not because it's necessarily unrealistic, but it makes them less likable to me (ex. lots of use of the word "fanny"). Otherwise, a fun read and quality romance!