The Great Gatsby is one of my all-time favorite books. So, hearing that this book gender-flips that story had me hooked immediately. However, the Gatsby angle distracted me from this story— I spent too much time connecting the dots and anticipating where things were going. In addition, I found the writing style difficult to follow, though that kind of makes sense when this story (not the Gatsby template) resolves in the end. So, for me as a Gatsby fan, this book didn’t work. As a YA dystopian future, rich kid love triangle, queer exploration story, though, this book has some potential for its intended audience.

I'm a little torn here. There is good stuff and, dare I say it, potential, but I've reached a point in my life where I feel like I should enjoy the act of reading the book and, in this case, I really didn't.