This book was... interesting. It was also a slog. It was only really interesting when Mori was the focus. Thaniel became more interesting as Mori became a bigger part of his life, though. This was actually lampshaded by Thaniel, he was just a boring clerk before Mori. Grace, however, was deeply unlikable and I feel like she didn't have to be. She was antagonistic towards Mori and Thaniel's friendship with him for??? No reason?? Whether she's against them being gay or not(it was never outright stated or even heavily implied that I could tell?), it was supposed to be a marriage of convenience so she could get her inheritance from her asshole father. Why should she give half a damn if Thaniel spends time with Mori? Especially if it's not because she's outright homophobic? Why did she care? Why did she care enough to make a bomb??? Why did she make a bomb????? I still don't get her motive there, what. What was she trying to accomplish? I just. Don't get it. She didn't have to be so unlikable, she really didn't.

Grace is like, my biggest problem with this book. I don't understand why she was... like she was. I'm still confused about the bomb she made. The book was boring and slow in some parts, but even after it picked up, any par with Grace was kind of awful.

I can't say I hated the book. I enjoyed reading about Mori and his clairvoyance, watching his relationship with Thaniel develop, and Katsu. I LOVED Katsu. I also liked that this was a book with a gay romance that was subtle and not the focus. This is not an "LGBT Book", like, say, Simon Vs. is. It's just a magical realism book that happens to have two men in love. And that's great. I just wish other parts of the book were also that great.