This was certainly very readable, and the characters were quite fun, and always nice to have a queer Muslim woman front and centre. I also liked how Àbíké-Íyímídé nailed the unfairness and horror of a school culture that ignores/enables sexism and sexual violence. It stuck the landing on being a Social Issue book that portrayed a problem without preaching to the reader.

However, the actual plot kind of lost me in the last act. I'm not especially sold on the narrative technique where a close third person point of view character is holding back key information from the reader. I guess the idea is a cool twist at the end, but it's the kind of plot device that works better on film. I don't mind bringing up details that the character is pointedly not thinking about (like what happened to her sister, here), but I'd actually like to know their primary motivation for everything they do sooner than three chapters from the end.

It's possible that YA boarding school mystery/thrillers aren't my genre.