If you keep saying you're a queer nun over and over again, that's the same thing as character reflection on having conflicting identities, right?

There were times when the MC literally read like characters I wrote in middle school who were always 'not like other girls' and were basically self inserts. Let's not even get into the fact that I'm not a girl at all anymore.

She's also so *selfish*. Like how do you find a way to make

your mom having cancer

all about you? How do you make

your brother being sexually assaulted

still all about you somehow?

And even worse, she joins the convent to try and become a better person...and learns nothing??? She's still insanely selfish but masks it by being the 'sleuth'. She literally

physically assaults a student who is one of the troubled kids that truly needs her help more than anyone in this story

because she still has no control over her anger issues. She's learned nothing from the years she's spent hiding from her problems. Like you're not tough and cool in this scenario, you're just an asshole!

But this is meant to be a series so maybe character development is gonna start in the second one? God I hope so! 

And the 'plot twist' feels completely out of left field. There's no build up that makes it feel realistic. It's just a bunch of plot points that get thrown together to make a mystery. She doesn't even DO any actual sleuthing, people just give her evidence or she causes a problem and someone shares a tip to the cop she's always hanging out with.

I didn't go into this book a hater. I REALLY wanted to like this. Queer nuns have been a thing throughout history, so I loved the possibility of getting to explore that, but you don't. At all. The author is spending too much time trying to convince you how 'cool' the MC is for that to happen.