I'm going to be perfectly honest, the ending of a book makes or breaks it for me.
Originally I was going to give this book a 4 or 4.5/5. The writing does sometimes feel like it's one more edit and re-write away from being finished. It does take a while to get into, but by the end, you can feel for this characters like they are your own. The twist near the end is done so well, and honestly if I re-read the book, a lot of tiny details that add up to the revealed at the end would probably be screaming foreshadow as I read them again. That and the final paragraph of the book is what pushed this over the edge to be a 5/5.

I mentioned this while reading, but if you enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale, Wilder Girls, and The Crucible, you will like this book. It has a mix of all of these set for a YA audience.

It was easy to pick out some pieces of the puzzle, but other theories I came up with ended up being false, which was 100% fine. Do I think there could've been more time developing Ryker as a character? Yes, but at the same time no. There's this complicated feeling with this book where I feel some sections could've been more fleshed out, but I'm actually fine with them being how they are in the end. It's been a bit since I've read an enemies to lovers trope that was this well done.

This is a book you read the first time for the story, and you read again for things to be clearer and another story to unfold within the hidden details.

For the record, I think he was solid and didn't pass through her.