I'm on the precipice of a slump and unfortunately not sold on this. I cannot bring myself to pick it back up at the moment. There are a lot of things that are just feeling really disjointed to me.

I am not buying the 1920s Harlem setting (and that was a HUGE selling point for me). Something feels off about the way the time period is being used. It's so surface level? Like this book could have been set in any decade with some minor wording adjustments.

The characters are not really grabbing me either. And usually I can forgive some wonky world-building if the characters are engaging but neither are doing it for me.

And it might be knit-picky but I was reading via audio and with this being dual POV, they should have had two narrators because right now the single narrator is doing NOTHING to differentiate between the two FMCs. And with the POV switches mid-chapter, I cannot follow along very easily.

IDK. I may come back to this at a later time. But consider this a soft DNF for now.