Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.
I started out absolutely loving this book. The writing was wonderfully evocative, and the MC's loneliness is so touching. The second MC, though. I get that he's an angry teen in a dysfunctional home situation, and that he's also lonely and sad and confused and hating himself. But there's a dub con scene that I was very uncomfortable with, and I've lost any sympathy for him that I had developed. Or maybe that's the author's point. I don't know. Still, it's a compelling story.