Unfortunately I do tend to like male manipulator books but I liked this, I think it gets way too much flack for what it is. I know people hate Holden but that kid is so funny. He’s also dealing with a lot of trauma and alienation that he doesn’t know how to process and I really felt for him. I will say that there is a lot of misogyny and homophobia, but I expected that going into it so it didn’t really bring my rating down because it didn’t catch me off guard.