Teheeheee this was so much better than book 2! 
My goodness I was concerned.

I will say this is a strong 4 for me, there were things that just irked my nerves and trying to stay neutral is certain situations and allowing empathy for things was a struggle. 

I really enjoyed finally getting Keenan’s story. I liked Lotus in book 1, she was alright in book 3. I was not expecting the age gap that we got but I’m upset about it!!! There was one K-POV where he said something and I was like oh ewww please no this doesn’t sound like something he’d say lol but then he redeemed himself later. 

Things that made me cringe….*spoilers*
- I must have missed how old they said Simone was because the way they talked about her and not wanting to uproot her life I thought she was like 7-10 years old. That child was a spoiled 14 year old and I can only blame the parents (not me getting flustered with fictional people 🥴) but they coddled her and made her more baby-ish than she truly needed to be. As a product of divorced parents who fought ALOT I just couldn’t see it. And then knowing my niece is this age and she has had conversations strictly from observing her parents interactions, yea no she was living in a different world and it was truly annoying. And baby mama was trash.
- then…I did not quite understand Lotus’ sexual decisions. I say this carefully because of her past and her coping but baby girl if you’re doing everything under the sexual sun and not penetration and then still going around spouting “we haven’t had sex” 😑 ma’am!!!!! Please stop talking it’s giving Gen Z🤦🏾‍♀️ grieve how you need but don’t call a goat a walrus. You claimed you were sexually aroused by someone and then yall hit the big O together! Still just trying to wrap my head around that one.

Overall though I do love how KR writes stories with very difficult and abusive topics to give victims a voice. I truly appreciate her research she does with each book and characters.