This book was a minor sensation among my general online circle and OTOH, sure, I get it, this is doing stuff with weaponized nostalgia and how that doesn’t work on traumatic queer childhoods. But on the other hand, I don’t know, this is a whole lot of familiar M/M tropes with a rather unsatisfying scifi thriller wrapping, and I kind of wonder if the people who thought this was amazing haven’t kept up on the absolute decadent glut of queer scifi of the past few years?

Mmm, I especially felt it around the ending. That said, I did really like Rao's vivid voice and Adam did gut me right at the end when he thinks about how he's boring, so he's too dull to be imagining what's happening. I guess for me it's both - I did really like it but I also thought it was a bit overrated.