i was holding my breath when i sent mom the text: “i cannot continue with this buddy read” but soon fell into laughter when she responded: “haha i was crossing fingers you wouldn’t want to finish❤️” and when my MOM dnfs a book… it’s bad. this was boring and the writing was not good and while the intrigue was high from the premise and the cat death in the first chapter, the next and first hundred pages made me DREAD the following 2/3 of the story.