This is my third Katee Robert book and I think I'm just coming around to her stories not really being for me. And that's okay! Not every story is for everyone! I enjoy following her on TikTok though. Electric Idol is a real good news/bad news situation for me. There are things I really like about this: the fat rep, though it got to feel a bit self-flagellating after a bit, as a fat person; lots of diversity in sexual orientation, especially bi/pan leads that still end up in m/f relationships without it invalidating their queerness). The sex scenes are very hot. Katee Robert can write a sex scene, I tell you what. But I also just do not jibe with how dark the world here is and how manipulative the machinations are. I think the thing that bugs me the most is that it's not unrealistic and I just want some escapism in my romances these days. So though these, taken at a net value, do not spark joy for me, I totally get it and am not yucking anyone's yums for enjoying these. (P.S. I still don't get how the naming works...)