2.5 would be brave because it’s not a 3. There’s no plot and all the characters except the best friends Nia are delusional. The main character is a barely employed 30 something year old Black female lawyer Aretha in NYC. She gets pulled into her boyfriend Aaron’s survivalist lifestyle except he’s never around and Aretha is stuffing unable to befriend the roommates James and Brittany. The book starts very slow and there’s no chapters, just 290 pages of text. One paragraph will be Aretha talking to Nia and the next she’s somehow at a different location with Aaron. One or two sentences of transition to say “Aretha leaves Nia at the diner and catches the train to meet with Aaron at their favorite bar” would suffice to ground the reader in physical location but that doesn’t happen so good luck figuring out time and space. The book is just Aretha’s endless thoughts about not being good enough at her job and grappling with the stockpile of guns in the house. The end of the book comes out of nowhere and seems so out of character for Aretha it’s difficult to believe that’s how she reacted. If you told me the last 10% of the book was written by someone else I’d believe it.