Follows the Pennington siblings, told through third person POV and mainly through Dimple. I didn’t always like her, she was really self centered and would get offended when other people pointed it out. I wish we saw more from the other siblings too! I felt disconnected and a little bored with the repetitive, telling over showing nature of the story plus being in third person it made it harder to have that emotional connection with every character.

However I did enjoy that each character felt different and unique! They all had their own traits to make them stand out and keep me interested in reading about the family.

In terms of writing style it could be too much telling over showing at times, like telling us about the characters traits instead of letting us learn about them through action. This also led to feeling repetitive in the character’s actions or issues. We constantly have Dimple crying, Prynce being a player, Lizzie being blunt, Nikisha being bossy, and Danny cracking jokes. As we get later into the novel, it felt like they had nothing else going for them and were never going to develop some sort of growth!

The story was also more sexual than I expected or wanted going into the book. I’m okay with spice sometimes if it’s well written and I know about it going in, but for a non-romance book this had some unexpected spicy moments that felt out of place for the rest of the book 😂

Finally, the resolution for the Kyron storyline could’ve been resolved waaay sooner; it was so dragged out for no reason just to be resolved the way it was! I loved how unexpected it was when I went into the book but it quickly got tedious. 

It wasn’t bad but I definitely prefer Queenie!

Rep: Black characters, mixed race characters (1 half white and half Black, 1 south Asian/indian and Black), sapphic character