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4.5/5 stars.

This shouldn't have been as good as it is. Minus .5 stars because Sem running off and leaving Magnus with his brothers turned me off, we didn't even find out what happened after. Also, Magnus didn't wear a dress. A crime against humanity. 

30% in and theres still no kitten play, i got bored

The chapters were too short that I lost track of who was talking a lot of times. It made it hard to get attached to any of the chapters or savor it. Definitely a fast-paced book. 

I liked it but putting incest on your book, like, actual incest where they get together in the end. Is certainly. A choice. I kinda got put off at that part. I wish there was a warning at least? Yeah.

Boring.

this book. wow. this... book. 


I've been putting off reading this book because I knew I would like it so I kept waiting for the right time to read it and when's a better time than when it's so hot your sweat is practically gluing you to your chair because the power went out? 

First of all, the cover. The beautiful, wonderful, amazing, pretty, gorgeous, eyecatching cover. That was why I was so nervous going into this book, my experience with pretty book covers is that they almost always end up being better than the actual content of the book. But not in this case, oh no, Vitor said what you see is what you get. 

Second of all, the poc and queer and fat rep. Need I say more?

Third of all, Felipé, our main character. There's a fine line between relatable and annoying when it comes to fictional characters, especially when they're a teenager. I have no problem with annoying teenage characters because real teenagers really ARE annoying. But you don't want to read about a character who annoys you, do you? But I didn't find myself being annoyed at Felipé. In fact, as someone who is the same age, it felt like I was reading about a friend. Because I picked this up when I'm the same age as the main characters, it became more personal to me. I was laughing, crying, and smiling with him. I just love him very much. 

Lastly, everything else. It didn't feel like this book was trying too hard. It was just a story about an insecure and bullied teenager trying to get through life and maybe find some romance along the way. It didn't try to be something else. It was straightforward and I appreciated that. I'm definitely rereading this again soon.

Ooooh baby, the remaining 25% of this book got me on chokehold. I loved it so much. I was on the edge of my seat and I read it in one sitting.

The author said that Hyde was going to be my favorite character but I found myself gravitating towards Drexe. There's something about characters that resemble an abadoned puppy I will always melt for. But, of course, Hyde, Arsenio, and Timeus were all great too. 

I don't think I have ever hated a book this much. Jin frustrates me to no end. I'm not even sure if I want to continue this series. It's a surprise I didn't throw my phone across the room while I was reading this fucking book. I hated it so much. I never expected it from a Mary Calmes book.

Honestly if it wasn't so hard to find a polyamorous relationship, let alone an m/m/m/m one, this would be 2 stars. It gave off teenager who read too many badly-written wattpad fanfics. I had some issues that played at least a slightly big role in the book so it was hard to ignore. The main two were:

1) the female characters. aside from Tanika and Cade's female family members, they were all the mean girl stereotype. It really gave me the impression that if Micah was a girl, there'd be a "I'm not like other girls" line somwhere.
2) the dialogue. i could tolerate it for the most part but this book was more than 400 pages long, it got way too annoying only halfway through. It was like written by someone who has never had a conversation with a real person. i can't explain why but it was. As someone who has read way too many cringe wattpad stories, I know what I'm talking about because this is exactly the shit I'd write back when I was 14.


I wish we got to see Micah befriend anyone outside the group, I was so excited to see him interact with people like him because he had such a pure heart. But it never really came. I also believe we could've dug dipper into the backstory of the main characters, especially Hyde's, but considering this was a standalone I understand why we didn't. 

I have to say, though, Sebastian and then the Council provoking Micah to test his powers was so funny to me because all I kept thinking was "there has to be a law out there somewhere about emotionally manipulating your student/s to test them."

In conclusion, I feel like a lot of things was overlooked because this book really focused on the romance part. So if that's what you're looking for in a book, this book is for you.

only took me 17 days to finish.... i was originally going to finish this in 4 days or less bc i picked it up as just a light-hearted read to pick up a heavier book but it was just... so full... of pop culture references that I had to take a break every other time a pop culture reference appeared. And each time, I was internally screaming "SHUT UP. STOP. JUST STOP." I'm neutral on pop culture references on books, sometimes I see a show or movie I love in a book and that's always fun to see but this is overkill. It's like a game of "How many pop culture references can you put in a book?" It was horrible. Horrible! 

But the pop culture references weren't my only problem, no sir, of course not, I wouldn't be so cruel to give it a 2 star just bc of that. The main characterprogressively got unbearable as we got closer to the end. It felt like the author was trying too hard to make him likeable that he ended up being pretentious. Maybe if it wasn't written in Kian's point of view, It would feel more authentic how everyone loved him but reading about his interactions with the other characters, I just wanted him to shut up. I kept wondering how the hell does he make everyone like him because reading his thoughts made me want to rip my hair out. Like, I understand why everyone likes him but when you know what happens behind the scenes, it makes you wonder just HOW.  I'm curious as to how this book would've turned out if we read it in Hudson's point of view but that would probably be harder as Hudson is attractice and rich and would probably annoy me more reading about how just because he's rich doesn't mean he has it easy. 

Hudson and Kian's relationship did nothing to me. They had chemistry! But there were so many scenes where they're both annoying and all I could think was "I hope they broke up permanently and just be miserable." And, mostly, the chemistry I'm talking about is how compatible their bodies are. It sounds like they have great sex but remove the sex and watch how much their chemistry just disappears. 

In conclusion, Jamal best character. Deserved more screen time at least. 



Note: I just want to ask if we ever found out why Hudson broke up with Kian because quite frankly I was just angry skimming-reading the last few chapters. It was a big part of why I didn't drop this book and I never even got the answer.