so this took me 5 month to read on and off which describes my experience with this book.
the first 150 pages were quite good and I really felt for Thomas and questioning your sexuality hit close to home for my friends.
my main problem was the Leteo institute and the whole procedures of losing memories. I don't think it was necessary for the exploration of losing your memory and wanting to forget things.
I also found Aaron very annoying, I understood how he had been through a lot and had issues but everytime he had an internal monologue about something happening he would reference his abusive father, his suicide attempt, his sexuality. I understand that this is a real problem of course but it was talked about it an annoying look at me kind of way. Aaron did messed up things but always blamed it as you deserved it or I felt this way or blah blah blah.
However I did come away with the interesting view on sexuality that a lot of people have like they're wrong - and I think this book did tackle important issues and in the end I did sort of come away with, they just needed to be executed better.