I'll give this much to Samantha Sotto and this book. This was very well-written, if not necessarily well-structured. The prose in this book flows quite beautifully. Conceptually, this was also quite an intriguing, unique, and genre-blending story. There are a lot of touching scenes all throughout the book that made me feel things.

However, for all of its merits, I just did not vibe with the book. I found much of it to be weird and while I was curious enough to keep on reading so that I could find out the reason for how the main character came to the situation she was in, I certainly was not hooked. I could've not finished the book and would have been fine. I also thought that we never spend enough time with the main characters in the present timeline to be really invested in them.

I will say that the ending was quite satisfying, but my overarching emotion towards this book is just plain befuddlement by how strange the whole story is—I definitely thought there were way too many chickens and eggs! This is certainly a case of "I respect this book, but it wasn't to my taste."