Get everyone in this book therapy.

I just cannot. Everyone in this book was extremely toxic for one another. It's impossible to even cheer for a singular character, which feeds into the point of the book but I was just turned off by it.

You're telling me, NO ONE in this book ever thought to effectively communicate and idk have some fucking empathy???

The author definitely wanted the Kat to be complex and while I do so that, she was also just so unnecessarily petty and mean. I truly struggled to care for her because she didn't find herself caring for others. Especially for Heath. I don't know why the hell she would claim to love him when she clearly treated him like a puppet or even worse a dog.

She also has this scene in which she literally outs one of the characters, and she tries to make herself feel better by basically saying he didn't care about her outing him... HELLO????

She also calls another character, a twink and that felt really strange to hear from her.

THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY.

Love isn't even a theme in this book, it's just two fucked up people clinging to one another because it's all they've ever known. It's truly toxic, like so toxic that it triggered my anxiety to the point in which I needed to take a break from the book.

Heath is no victim either, his clinginess is toxic and such a burning red flag. I felt bad for him at times but he truly just wouldn't wake up from his behavior. Like not even in the years that they were apart did he emotionally grow up.

I hated how he would commit to things and say he was doing it for Kat, like did he really have no identity outside of Kat??? also why did no one in this book find it alarming that everything he did was for her. I understand that he grew up in an abusive environment and that distorted his views on what a healthy relationship would look like which is why I'm saying, WHY DID NO ONE GET HIM HELP????

Also the situation with Kat's friend pissed me tf off.

Not even in the epilogue were they seeing any therapists which truly I found baffling.

Can I get therapy for even reading this???