How Aaron Wang managed to write a story that includes a mystery, a viral moment and the backlash from it and a budding romance in under 300 pages amazes me.

I'm happily seeing a recent trend in more stories written about LGBTQIA characters where their queerness isn't the point of the story. Or at least, it's not what gets the ball rolling for a majority of the events. When this happens, we get to read about queer people doing them while just also happening to be queer.

Pete is a very flawed character, and it was refreshing that he recognized that about himself. For him, he was just existing and going with the flow of things until hearing a Charlie XCX song slaps him out of his slump. From here we watch Pete make some arguably good decisions and then many bad/stupid ones. Despite watching him make very stupid decisions, I really enjoyed exploring how being online and thinking you're "safe" isn't a reality.

Although this was a murder mystery, it felt like a warning label for what not to do on the web and how easy it is to track people down.

I enjoyed Frankie's character and thought they meshed well with Pete. They were both on board with the shenanigans and often a voice of reason for some of Pete's bad ideas.

The big reveal at the end was completely unexpected but felt real and was definitely the most plausible outcome of going viral in this day and age. There are a lot of pop references in the novel so I'm not sure how well it'll age but I really enjoyed the inclusion of them and thought it was done tactfully and not cringe.

This is my first work by Aaron Wang and I'm definitely a fan and will look out for their future works. Thanks so much to Books in Color for the DRC!