honestly the premise of this book was quite interesting and there’s certain parts i enjoyed — the gaudy, tasteless excessiveness that characterised the partying scene in berlin as social media starts becoming more prominent in the late 2000s. i just didn’t rly care for the execution…. the language and prose felt like it was trying too hard and the placement of commas rly bothered me LOL made the story feel so chunky sometimes 😭 i can understand why the side characters are so 1d bc it’s probably meant to reflect the superficial friendships formed, but even the two main girls didn’t feel particularly fleshed out to me… they were just chaotic and messy and toxic friends to each other. genuinely got so annoyed at certain points bc of their unlikability 

overall the themes about perception, pretense, obsession and the exploration of zoe’s sexuality were all quite interesting to read otherwise and the plot RLY picked up in the last 15%. j wish the transition to a murder mystery had happened earlier 😕 and on a side note do berlin art students rly have so little school????? it feels like they did nothing but party and get high 😭😭😭😭 would definitely classify this under the unhinged females genre… if the language hadn’t bothered me so much throughout the whole book i’d probably have given this a higher rating