Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me the opportunity to read the arc of Intersection. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get more than 10% of the way through. I found the writing style to be quite difficult to understand for me and the conversations between characters to be very blunt. I was quite bored throughout the pages that I read. I honestly had no idea what was going on and I just couldn’t follow the story and I didn’t want to carry on reading the words for the sake of reading the words. They just weren’t going in my brain. Perhaps it’s just a skill issue on my part haha but compared to a lot of other books I’ve read, it is quite difficult to comprehend. I’m sure it would be an amazing book, but it’s not for me unfortunately.

I tried so hard with this book, but I tapped out at 16% complete. I wanted to like it. I'm usually a sucker for the kind of deep world building this book has, that doesn't hold your hand but instead throws you deep into a culture full of things that you need to figure out for yourself. But it was too much. Despite advertising itself as character-driven, I couldn't form a necessary attachment to the main characters to keep me going through it. The perspective changed frequently. The plot was slow moving and depended too heavily on things that I just couldn't get through my thick skull to fully understand any of it.
Maybe this is the kind of book I need to try again at a better time (ie not the end of a school year that has absolutely fried me), but for now, it wasn't for me.

DNF. The toughest thing about this book was that there were, around the edges of it, some glimpses of a truly talented writer. There were phrases that hit exactly the right level of poetic without feeling forced ("the substance or the who" and "an older tongue still" stand out in my memory). And I do love a book that doesn't overexplain its worldbuilding. But unfortunately those strengths were interwoven with what I found to be some of the bigger weaknesses of the book. The writing style was inconsistent and often choppy, and it felt like new worldbuilding details were being introduced in nearly every sentence. There was a lot of telling rather than showing, especially in regards to how characters viewed each other. And there wasn't anyone whose head I was excited to live in or plot I was hooked into, which was disappointing.

I won't cross-post this review to goodreads, since I'm leery of leaving negative reviews if I didn't actually finish the book. But I won't be recommending it, either. Sorry, this one wasn't for me.