I appreciated the overarching themes of belonging, sense of self, and love vs. lust. However something about the novel just didn’t click for me. Felt incredibly slow moving for a book that’s ~200 pages. I understand why the author chose not to use quotation marks, but it made reading harder and more confusing. Also don’t completely understand why everyone was unnamed. I guess to emphasize this “could happen to anyone” but … could it? Overall just felt extremely overwritten. And I’m left wishing the main character loved themself just a little bit more