allofakind shared a tip "I think the fact that the cover is of a man's body and not much more is quite telling. The narrator (who's never named) is an English professor who spends the entire book ******* over one of her colleagues, the way he looks, the way he thinks. Her descriptions are vivid, her fantasies almost real, and she is determined to make them come true. All this, of course, is happening while the real world is kinda falling apart around her. Her husband is being possibly suspended from his job as the director of the English department due to a sexual relationship with 7 women, who both the author and he assure were of age and consenting in a time that student teacher relationships at the college were legal. Our narrator cannot allow herself to condemn her husband as a rapist, and how could she, when she's so stuck in her own world. Honestly, I don't know how I feel about this book. The writing was beautiful, poetic, descriptive. But the scenes that were being described were sensual to the point of my feeling uncomfortable. I do believe that was the point, but I feel like symbolism was lost on me somewhere inside."

mandy_mcmanders shared a tip "The book was well written, but like Nabakov’s Lolita, I didn’t like the way I got into the protagonist’s head as they were making terrible decisions. It gave me anxiety."