I kind of went into it being like I can't wait to ship these two and then I'm like I don't ship them at all why would I ship them it's like I just couldn't ship any random two strangers together and be like those two together now and that I don't know that's not that's to me what that book was
BOOKS THAT DON’T FIT THE HYPE MOLD
the general consensus was that or at least what I saw is that a lot of people enjoyed the premise of it but it didn't feel completely fleshed out that's that was my takeaway
the first one I ended up dnfing this series but I do tell people if they want to check it out you probably do want to check out the second one because the first one just feels so incredibly incomplete it's really short it kind of feels like a very long prologue in a sense or it feels like the first chunk of chapters and that it should be smushed together with the second book
he's so annoying he's so noxious and I also think I'm very picky about how characters respond to Poverty because there is a part of the story where both is not financially well off and he's just barely scraping by and surviving
I love that series I love the characters I love the exploration of who they are what makes them who they are why they have certain views toward their world I love those books but they're all over a thousand pages and they do take so much time and they do I think require a level of trust



