McQueer writes in a way that’s impossible to ignore. I felt physically sick reading this, especially Jamie’s thoughts and his interactions with Seb. Fiona was also difficult to read, her chapters were a lot more depressing than Jamie’s. The slow but steady progression from confusion to incel on Jamie’s behalf was so uncomfortable. I can easily see how real this is for some men and how easily they slip into this violence and anger. The last 30% of the book made me feel claustrophobic, I knew something terrible and irreversible was going to happen and I didn’t want it to. Truly, a dark and tragic story that is all too familiar to the real life news stories I see day in and day out. A very hard book to read but also written well.