This was a really cute, introspective love story between two nonbinary people who are neurodivergent.
I loved the representation in this book. It really helped me understand the way some neurodivergent people's brains might work and the struggles they might have to face because of it. I also liked how they were both nonbinary but presented their gender in different ways. It really showed how vastly different and wide the nonbinary umbrella can be.
I also liked the two characters as their relationship together grew. They were both so cute as their feelings developed and grew more romantic in nature rather than just platonic.
Unfortunately I didn't understand the magical realism part of this story. I don't understand why it was necessary for the story in general and the world building for it was lacking as well. Why were these two the only ones who could see it? Is it all neurodivergent people who can? Or is just them? And what did the "haunting" at Lore's apartment have to do with the world under the lake? I get that it was a way for them to each realize that they needed to process the bad things that happened to them or that they did, but I didn't understand why it was this lake world or where it came from or anything. It just really didn't work and it bothered me at the end when I realized that I really wasn't going to get any of those questions answered.
As a magical realism book, this one didn't work for me. If it had just been a contemporary book with a little romance then it might have worked alright, but as it is, it doesn't.