This was my first book by Anna and certainly won’t be my last! I just loved the characters - AND the character growth for Jackson in particular was fantastic. Learning about racism as a privileged white man in your mid-20s is difficult but NEEDED. He really stepped up and showed Oleander that he would put in the work 👏 I also love that Oleander is fat, brown, and bisexual - representation was immaculate! Also having an FMC that has survived a near r*pe and sexual assault and hearing her feelings and thoughts on it made me feel very seen and validated as someone who has also survived both of these things. 

The only reason I dropped this down to 4.25 is because I feel like there was… too much sex? Idk I just wish there were maybe 2-3 less sex scenes? I wanted more of the STORY.