what happens when your path has been mapped. maybe you dont even see it. maybe in the deep depths of your gut you do know it. but some paths are easier to stay on. but in all class systems there is questions, pressures. from high above there are pressures from legacies forged. it takes bravery to see different, it takes bravery to be different.
our two main characters have their own ways, they have their own slots so to speak. but the two come across the other one night and cant hide away from the chink it causes. from the light it causes. even if at first it just seems to be an annoyance!
so what happens next. will they decide?will fate? what do we believe? what do they believe? who gets to decide?
i liked the themes covered in this book. there's a lot going on behind the main characters daily "faces". and i was rooting for them both to push through. i was really interested to see how the author might cope with both ends of the spectrum. their is one of privilege here and one very much of struggle. and to talk of both and not be biased or stick to stigmatic tropes can be hard. i thought this was handled well. or at least in a realistic way and reminded me of how much work still needs to be done in our society in this area. or at least to make me keep thinking when i come across these things.

I read 25% through the book and I felt like I was reading through sludge and that may have been a choice. I understand the author is trying to show how stuck the characters are but the style is not for me. I also didn’t like that it was in third point of view omnipresent. I personally just don’t like that pov. I think the story has potential but it’s just not the book for me. It just moved to slow if it moved faster I think I would have enjoyed it more.