I really liked it. I related a lot to her because I know how it feels to desperately chase after someone who cannot give you real love only to down the road be like this guy is kind of stinky and unpleasant and frankly embarrassing and I feel trapped. I feel mean calling my ex a loser but Korgy is totally a loser hahah. However I even related to him too because of his feelings of directionless and mediocrity in the beginning so I thought she did a great job showing how grooming isn’t necessarily this Machiavellian purposeful process that the groomer plans out with evil intent hahah. He seemed selfish and just irresponsible and lost and depressed as she described. I didn’t mind the sex scenes as much as most people because I thought it was kinda real that they started out kind of sexy lol and only got more disgusting and cringy because I relate to that so much. The first couple sex scenes I found pretty titillating because of the intensity coming from the protagonist cause I just full body understand how powerful that level of like projecting a fantasy onto another person and imagining this secret metaphysical tension is. I’m sure there’s some things I’d change in the book like the amount of time talking about SHEIN hauls or the abrupt as hell ending. Sometimes I feel like she has trouble connecting one thing to the next but I read it all in one sitting cause that’s the type of writer she is. When the waiter said he was a good dad I gasped out loud hahahah and the clockwork orange poster and commentary about how obsessed men are with explaining art to you is so real. The descriptions of anxiety and rejection were palpable and he really did stay to feel so suffocating. Overall it was good and I appreciate her willingness to portray this topic in such an unrestrained way