I had so many little but big problems with this book I almost don’t know where to start. I almost DNF’d it pretty quickly because it felt like the author was trying too hard to make a basic character interesting and it wasn’t working. Eve felt like your typical basic FMC that everyone falls for immediately for no apparent reason but this time she was given basic quirks like listening to the Hamilton soundtrack as if to make her more endearing. I wasn’t endeared. A lot of the dialogue between Eve and Cora fell incredibly flat and repetitive and if I had to hear one more mention of how much they love eating ice cream together I was gonna throw my phone. 

One thing that bothered me immensely was the random blogger Rose. Like who?? It was like the author was trying to make a gossip girl character but didn’t properly establish it in the world so it made absolutely no sense being there. It would be different if the gossip blog was something characters actively/semi-actively mentioned or acknowledged but apart from one line made by background teenage extras at the beginning we don’t get that. There are literally parts in the book where the main characters have no idea about the information that was in the blog. If you’re going to introduce an aspect like that into your story you have to have it actually affect or interact with your characters, otherwise it’s useless and confusing. 

My last biggest grievance was honestly just the whole dynamic between all 4 of them. I read a lot of reverse harems and I love it almost every time but this was just way too close to cheating. There was no communication between the guys and everyone just kept glossing over the fact that there was an established relationship but she just kept letting other guys make moves on her and was actively reciprocating it. It’s different if anyone at literally any point stated that they would be ok with some sort of arrangement for all of them but that never happened cause they’re all possessive and it’s just ok that she’s accepting it all. Waaay too close to cheating in my books.

Don’t even get me fucking started on the random they’re apparently related reveal. I get it’s probably meant to smooth things over for the relationship to develop in the next book but it again really rubs me the wrong fucking way when he was the only one of them that had actually established a relationship with her. I hated that.

 

Despite all my problems I didn’t hate reading this but I definitely won’t be continuing on to finish the next book.