In one scene Alex, the protagonist, has a 3 conversations in one day about attraction and boundaries and “full disclosure” with a woman *he’s already slept with*. Characters will frequently have a long discussion about how they’re going to hook up later that day, what they find attractive about each other, how they can’t wait to get busy, etc, and then when they meet up they go through the whole thing again, talking about boundaries and consent as if the first conversation never happened.
There is more talk about consent and boundaries in this book than there is magic or the supernatural, which is really saying something. Characters who are supposedly mental-bonded and know everything the others know spend page after page talking about “full disclosure”, the nature of consent, boundaries in their relationships, etc. Also there is alot of feminist weirdness thrown in for no reason I can tell. The author seems to have selected the genre not because he actually wants to write in it, but because it allows him to have 20x as many female characters as male ones and that’s what he finds interesting.
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