I really appreciated Harper's journey of healing and coming into her own, plus the incredible aesthetic and atmosphere of the tea house, but I did notI really appreciated Harper's journey of healing and coming into her own, plus the incredible aesthetic and atmosphere of the tea house, but I did not buy Harper and Azathe as lovers at any point. It genuinely felt like the author was like "Welp, those two can't be FRIENDS, they have to fuck!! This is supposed to be a monsterfucking book!!" and just started writing the sex scenes.... in which only one of the participants feels pleasure. Grrrreat.
Cambric Creek is still one of the better monsterfucking series/ books I've come across, though....more
A very self indulgent book, Olivie Blake herself admits that in the afterword. All her novels are, to some degree, but I especially felt it here becauA very self indulgent book, Olivie Blake herself admits that in the afterword. All her novels are, to some degree, but I especially felt it here because it read a bit like fanfic of her own life (again, she admits it herself)
Someone with her exact condition meeting a guy who just adores her no matter what, while she's mostly using him for validation (seriously, Aldo is stated to be madly in love with Regan, but her POV never comes close to that degree of adoration. We get constant descriptions of her being amazing and fiery and 'a titan' but Regan never sees Aldo as anything close to that. She only sees what he can do for HER, him 'keeping her together' and 'grounding her so she doesn't slip away', stuff like that), and they end up together "despite all odds!" (meaning: even though their respective families don't think they should be)
This is supposed to be a triumphant story of love prevailing no matter what, and it was pretty good..... up until they 'officially' got together. Then it just devolves to typical cringy descriptions of sex and endless navel gazing like "I think you carry around a sadness from another life. From centuries ago" or (paraphrased) "We're in love, who are we hurting? Fuck you!". I know all young couples think they've reinvented the wheel, but that doesn't mean that I need to read about that cringe. I've lived it.
So yeah. TL;DR: very self indulgent, very verbose, pretty one sided if you ask me (the codependency of the relationship is also never questioned), read uncomfortably like fanfic of Olivie Blake's own life. Came away just glad I managed to finish it....more
Not much to say here. Pretty good if you want a non-omegaverse monster romance (I refuse to read anything in that genre), and I really liked that the Not much to say here. Pretty good if you want a non-omegaverse monster romance (I refuse to read anything in that genre), and I really liked that the monster was a Mothman instead of a vampire/ werewolf/ orc.
The problem is that it is, ofc, cringy frequently, like many many romances, the way flashbacks are written is bizarre (the author just starts writing them in the middle of a sentence in the 'present' tense, without any indication that we're actually jumping back for that section, or that we're back in the 'present' when it's done), and in the end it's just like the author says in the foreword: it's just pure candyfloss fluff, so it's nothing that'll stick with me....more
I should've been out the moment I saw, on page 2 or so, that it's a Huge Guy/ Tiny Girl trope, which is generally very popular in romance butDNF @53%.
I should've been out the moment I saw, on page 2 or so, that it's a Huge Guy/ Tiny Girl trope, which is generally very popular in romance but does absolutely nothing for me, so I'm tired of it being in EVERY romance book I've picked up recently (Conversations with Friends, the Brown Sisters books, Beach Read, even freaking The Haunting of Maddy Clare, which wasn't even supposed to be a romance). "The guy is HUGE, a hulking GIANT, his legs are 3km long and barely ever fit under tables!! The girl is teeny tiny, how did this toddler wander in here? She can't reach tall shelves! The guy looms over her constantly but she likes it!"
Look, this is on me entirely. I just wanted an easy breezy read because my other one, Solaris, was getting a bit heavy and complex so I wanted a "turn my brain off" palate cleanser. But I wasn't enjoying any of this. The ~snappy~ dialogue is cringey, it's convenient and forced as hell (especially the show getting big pretty much since day 1, and then ooohhh, social media trolls pop up for some tension!), the characters aren't interesting, and I noped the fuck out the moment the weekend-trip-fake-dating plot popped up. I hate the fake dating trope, I stupidly thought we'd avoid it by having the characters pretend to be exes instead but nope.
I especially hated all the forced drama about Lying to the Listeners!! because they're not really exes, which had to include everyone in the characters' close circles too for some reason. I still don't understand why Shay couldn't tell her mother, for instance. It's literally just storytelling. Of course the listeners couldn't know to keep up the illusion, but why not, like, Ruthie?
Also, I'm 85% sure that the author is either a koreaboo, or a kpop fan at the very least. Dominic is written like a kboo's wet dream, and a lot of the language used to describe him is exactly stuff that kpop fans fixate on. I'd know, I'm a kpop fan myself. "Oh my gosh, I'm attracted to this cute guy who's soooo much younger than me, isn't that WEIRD? Oh my gosh, he's so TALL and clean shaven always, but just a glimpse at his stubble is making me swoon! His long, long legs are miles long!! Oh my GOD, FOREARMS???"
2 stars because I didn't hate it enough for a 1 star. It's just that I didn't care to follow the book wherever it chose to go....more
Privileged White People And Their Problems: The Novel.
Was this well written? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Not really. It's unlikeable characters and their mePrivileged White People And Their Problems: The Novel.
Was this well written? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Not really. It's unlikeable characters and their meaningless problems that they create themselves (τρώγονται με τα ρούχα τους, for all y'all Greeks out there) because they've got nothing else going on, but you need SOME drama to spice life up, right? Most, if not all, of said problems are about who fucks whom and jealousy fits over that. Decidedly not my cup of tea.
On the other hand, the book is very nuanced and ripe for discussion. I also love it when a character is making a flawed decision/ having a weird opinion and a different character calls them out, because otherwise I can't tell whether it's the author writing their own (terrible) viewpoints on paper and we're supposed to agree with them or their meant-to-be-flawed character's.
Special shoutout to the ending phone call, which felt like it'd never ever end....more
**spoiler alert** It was.... okay? At least it wasn't one of the "Mental illness was the REAL monster all along!!" stories, but I felt like the author**spoiler alert** It was.... okay? At least it wasn't one of the "Mental illness was the REAL monster all along!!" stories, but I felt like the author was more interested in the Sarah/ Matthew romance and their explicit sex scenes than anything to do with Maddy.
The resolution to the mystery, which was predictable from the moment mrs. Barry approached Sarah all hush-hush in the shop (were we supposed to think that mrs. Barry would care about anyone other than herself and her husband or what?), is almost like an afterthought. No one seems to care about a literal gang rape and attempted murder having happened other than the victim herself; to everyone else, it's a bit like "Um, okay, but it's the victim coming back from the dead that's causing the REAL ruckus". Mrs. Clare, her surrogate mother of sorts, didn't even want to find out what happened in the end, she "just wanted Maddy gone" and she got that. Classy.
Also, Maddy taking a liking to Alistair and wanting to "keep him" was a laughably bad excuse for some high stakes in the story. Maddy hates men for what her rapists did to her, her ghost will go berserk if she feels a man, she killed herself precisely to be able to punish her rapists via supernatural means.... and yet she suddenly likes Alistair because ???? Were we supposed to "read between the lines" or something, and interpret it as her being cunning enough even in her half-confused ghost version to just use him as leverage and nothing more? Because all we're ever told is that she "likes him".
The character work wasn't particularly strong, all of them are pretty much stereotypes. Sarah is the Thinks She's Plain and Powerless But Is Actually Attractive and Even Supernaturally Gifted, Alistair is the Jolly Rich Guy That Everyone Likes On Sight Because He's Just So Damn Earnest, Matthew is the Bad Boy With A Dark Past, mrs. Barry is a Rich Bitch, mr. Barry is the Rich Bully That Everyone Only Tolerates Because Of His Money, and the list goes on.
Overall, kind of meh and disappointing. Also, turns out I'd been confusing it and The Death of Mrs. Westaway, as in I thought they were one and the same and I was confused when Mrs. Westaway was a straightforward thriller with no ghosts....more
I HATED the first half of Tuesday being an asshole who disrupts Sutton's work and annoys her on purpose to "get her attention". What kindergarten "ThaI HATED the first half of Tuesday being an asshole who disrupts Sutton's work and annoys her on purpose to "get her attention". What kindergarten "That boy pulled your hair and called you names? He likes you!" bullshit was that? Not particularly well written, even after the characters get together it all just devolves into saccharine sweet domestic life after they go from barely tolerating each other to falling in love in the span of a week.
The best parts of this book are the cover and the effortless diversity. The plot, characters, pacing all fall flat. No, the constant references to the ~cute kitties!!!~ weren't more needed than some actual characterization....more
While some parts were pretty brilliant, a huge part of the book was formulaic and boring af. Romance books tend to fall into 'one size fits all' pitfaWhile some parts were pretty brilliant, a huge part of the book was formulaic and boring af. Romance books tend to fall into 'one size fits all' pitfalls a lot, and this one was no exception, sadly.
The brilliant parts were mostly January's; her family saga, grief over her father's death on top of complicated feelings over the affair revelations, why she writes and believes in romance, her INCREDIBLE friendship with Shadi, the breakdown of book genres and expectations, all that works really well.
But then there's Augustus, who's a bunch of Love Interest (TM) stereotypes in a trenchcoat. Broody Angsty Vaguely Bad Boy With A Traumatic Past Walking Stereotype Augustus, who: *is So Much Bigger And Calloused Thus Masculine Than Tiny Little Feminine January (this seems to work really well in romance, doesn't do anything for me) *has A Vague Smokey Sexy Smell (that's supposed to be mostly incense and not cigarettes, though they're also mentioned a few times, because Smoking Is Gross, that's said explicitly at one point- could've just..... eliminated the entire Sexy Smokey Smell thing?? It read like the author wanting to make him a full blown smoker to go with the Bad Boy image, but her editor convincing her to change it because We Can't Romanticize Smoking Anymore) *whose romcom book we never even get to see (no, two sentences at the very end of the book won't cut it for me) even though the bet, and each character learning to embrace the other's POV, was the entire point of the plot *who conveniently Has Always Liked January Since The First Time They Met *who is very swiftly made into a generic "Oh my God I worship everything about you" love interest character the moment they get together officially *and whose presence/ romance is used as the one thing that finally snapped the main character out of their downwards spiral. All You Need Is Love. I was looking forward to seeing Shadi 'in person' the entire book, and when she finally does appear, (view spoiler)[she's quickly shoved to the side and never seen again to have a Romantic Scene In The Pouring Rain. (hide spoiler)] Ugh.
I'm going to give Emily Henry another chance with Book Lovers or People We Meet on Vacation (haven't decided yet), but this one was a bit of a letdown, ngl....more
There's been some conversations recently about how we should take all representation where we can get it and let it exist, even if the book/movie/seriThere's been some conversations recently about how we should take all representation where we can get it and let it exist, even if the book/movie/series/etc. isn't necessarily good. So, I'm gonna leave my review unrated, because it'd be 2 stars and I wouldn't like to bring the book's total rating down.
The book isn't even bad per se, it's just harmless fluff for people who prefer books to read like saccharine, sappy and predictable fairy tales where nothing ever really goes wrong a la Red White And Royal Blue. The main character is basically perfect (Skye is an amazing singer and dancer who chooses a notoriously difficult song for her audition and nails it at 17 with basically no formal training besides being in a choir, she breezes through the show's challenges and manages to juggle filming, practicing and studying for school), everyone loves her on sight besides the Obvious Bully Characters (because of course they're cartoony Disney villains who Just Suck, more on this later), and there's never any doubt that she's going to win the competition, or that she'll never have to face her friends in said competition. Can't bother with that when we can have a Ferris wheel date!
None of the above is a sin or a reason to have the book dragged through the mud, and it's not about the book being uNrEaLiStIc because the realism arguments are almost always bullshit when most people -including myself- read fiction to have fun, but it IS about conflict and how the absence of it makes for a very boring experience in which you know that every tiny "obstacle" will be overcome immediately. Would I have preferred to have Skye be bullied and alone and involved in petty competition drama the entire time? Absolutely not. But didn't particularly enjoy the Zero Conflict Besides Fatphobia approach that this book chose, either.
Don't get me wrong, fatphobia has been a problem for literal decades (and I'm plus sized, I know aaaaaall about that. I even got comments about having too wide an ass/ hip area when I was skinny) so it's not "just fatphobia" like it's something easily brushed away, Lyla Lee deciding to tackle that is still a ballsy move; but there's tons more she could've done. The kpop industry is notoriously toxic on all sides, from overworking, underpaying and mismanaging their artists all around to sexism/ double standards, fatphobia, colorism, cultural appropriation and casual racism to non-Korean artists. I understand that Lyla obviously couldn't critique all of those issues even if she tried, let alone critique them properly, in a fluffy YA book, but basically none of that besides the fatphobia, that concerns Skye directly, is ever even mentioned, and even the fatphobia is mostly attributed to Those Mean Bully Characters We Have To Bring Down A Peg Personally instead of it being an industry thing. Bora, Melinda, Bobby, even Skye's mom to some extent, they're just mean because the book needed *someone* with a face to stand up to instead of a vague We Live In a Society thing, because that definitely couldn't be solved in said fluffy YA book, while Bora COULD be fired (spoilers, sorry) And I also expected more on the social commentary side of the book rather than the author just laser focusing on the predictable romance.
So the plot was nothing to write home about, the social commentary was lacking, what else? The characters, apart from The Bullies that I've already covered, were also weak as hell because they get barely any characterization even when they have "screentime". I'm looking at Henry in particular while saying this because he graduated from (vague hand gestures) Shallow Snobby Model to Just Makes Heart Eyes At The Protagonist And Is Conveniently Rich. Wow, awesome character work! I did like Lana, though.
One last mention goes to the beyond outdated Harry Potter references (that even Lyla Lee herself has acknowledged, so I'm gonna mostly let this one slide), the clunky "Oh no he/ she didn't!!!" hip quotes, and the fact that this is supposed to be a book drenched in kpop that barely ever mentions other groups or artists besides BTS, and even if it does it's a passing reference once, while BTS gets a shoutout every other page.
2,5 stars, rounded down. I thought about giving this a basic 3, there were parts I enjoyed, but then I asked myself "Would you reread it?", and the an2,5 stars, rounded down. I thought about giving this a basic 3, there were parts I enjoyed, but then I asked myself "Would you reread it?", and the answer is no.
While I understand why some readers are in love with this, I definitely wasn't. It was a milquetoast of a book. Flavorless, shallow, kind of vapid. It's supposed to be a slow burn, character driven book, but the characters are so bland and boring that it ends up being a snoozefest instead.
No one in this book is fleshed out. Addie's only characterization is her (*singsong voice*) seven freckles like a star constellation (this is mentioned again and again) and that she's "cunning", "stubborn", "free-spirited" Basically, not like other girls. There's 300 years of history we could've seen through Addie's eyes, and most we ever see is her hookups with randos so she'll have a place to stay for the night, going to several nightclubs, playing meaningless mind games with Luc, whining about being immortal, and all her "muse" moments, of her seven star shaped magical incredible freckles inspiring so many artists through the centuries.
The narrative tells us what she's like again and again, but I saw none of that. She starts and ends the book as the exact same character who somehow lives through 300 years with zero character development, or even any personality. The narrative tries to tell us that she's not even human anymore towards the end, because of her immortality, but she never behaves as anything other than a human.
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl vibes intensify x10000 in the 2014 portion of the book, which is the worst one imo. Henry is equally as bland as Addie (match made in heaven!), they insta-fall in love on first sight, and from there they just...... go on sickly sweet romcom dates, which are violently overwritten and say in 8 words what could be said in 3. That's it. Unless you were in the mood for fluff picking this book up, you'll probably be disappointed. I was. I kept waiting for something more to happen, and it never did. Most you'll get is the 93725th description about how Henry being shy and reserved, but Addie being soooo confident and full of energy; one of their dates is to an art installation about sound that asks visitors to scream at a certain point. Henry barely squeaks, but Addie ROARS. I really wish that Manic Pixie Dream Girl narratives had died an ugly, long forgotten death already.
The only vaguely enjoyable portions of the book are the scenes with Luc in them, though he suffers from the repetitive writing as well (His dark curls! His green eyes that keep changing colour! Now emerald! Now dark forest green! His wolfish smile! He looked exactly like a wolf! A wolf hiding in the dark!) At least those parts had some flavour, namely horror, and he had some personality: he's fickle, unpredictable, entitled, kind of an asshole. At least he's not white bread.
I was ready for the book to be over anyway, but then the ~meta~ ending came. Laughable, and makes the "#Irememberaddie" hashtag that was pushed when the book came out hilarious in hindsight. Victoria Schwab was so in love with her own book, her own voice and her own fantasies (it genuinely reads like Addie is her self-insert, someone who feels like they're nothing themselves but they can INSPIRE others instead, someone who's lived a bunch of lives [through her characters], someone who's fought over by two men who only want to take her on dates) that she forgot to make it any good.
Addie will be forgettable for me even without Luc's curse....more
*shrug* While I enjoyed reading this, now that I'm looking back on it, I don't particularly care. It's very firmly in the It Was All A Metaphor catego*shrug* While I enjoyed reading this, now that I'm looking back on it, I don't particularly care. It's very firmly in the It Was All A Metaphor category and I've never cared for those books. Not to mention that this isn't horror and I don't understand why it was marketed as such....more
Better than book 1, this one had more structure and plot than just a bunch of sex scenes all loosely stitched together (if that's your cup of tea, cooBetter than book 1, this one had more structure and plot than just a bunch of sex scenes all loosely stitched together (if that's your cup of tea, cool, but it's not really mine). Plus, I enjoyed the behind the scenes look into the theatre and the characters..... .....except for Jude. I fucking hated him and I don't know why, ever since his first scene, so I never vibed with any of his scenes. Especially when, y'know, we could be reading about Ronan instead. Another problem, that was present in the first book too, was that the villain is just vaguely "there" just to have some kind of looming threat and tension, but he's not really, so I never took him seriously. I'm still going to read the next book, this is the best monster romance series I've found....more
(This review will be copy-pasted for Dani's book too) (book 2, geddit) While I understand why the Brown Sisters books work for people, and I'm not tryi(This review will be copy-pasted for Dani's book too) (book 2, geddit) While I understand why the Brown Sisters books work for people, and I'm not trying to take that away from anyone, I thought they were formulaic, convenient and cookie cutter as hell.
I understand that people just want some feel-good vibes sometimes, but having seen the books described as "sooooo refreshing for the romance genre" so many times, I expected something a lot better than what I got. And it happened both times, because it's basically the exact same book twice (probably thrice if we count Eve's book as well, which I haven't read and I don't think I will)...more
(This review will be copy-pasted for Dani's book too) (book 2, geddit) While I understand why the Brown Sisters books work for people, and I'm not tryi(This review will be copy-pasted for Dani's book too) (book 2, geddit) While I understand why the Brown Sisters books work for people, and I'm not trying to take that away from anyone, I thought they were formulaic, convenient and cookie cutter as hell.
I understand that people just want some feel-good vibes sometimes, but having seen the books described as "sooooo refreshing for the romance genre" so many times, I expected something a lot better than what I got. And it happened both times, because it's basically the exact same book twice (probably thrice if we count Eve's book as well, which I haven't read and I don't think I will)...more
DNF @, like, 70%, didn't even check. Just noped out.
Boring, repetitive, and the "virginal, innocent, has never even masturbated but becomes empowered DNF @, like, 70%, didn't even check. Just noped out.
Boring, repetitive, and the "virginal, innocent, has never even masturbated but becomes empowered and confident after having sex" heroine was eyeroll worthy. Had to nope out after the mentions of ~breeding~ when it was clear that that was exactly where the book was headed. Absolutely not....more
Honestly, this was lovely. Felt like a warm hug even when it was tough to read at times.
I totally get the criticism about the purple (sometimes; it'sHonestly, this was lovely. Felt like a warm hug even when it was tough to read at times.
I totally get the criticism about the purple (sometimes; it's really not as bad as people make it out to be, I've read so much worse than a few purple language ~deep~ Tumblr quotes sprinkled here and there in an otherwise totally normal contemporary text) language and the "weird" nicknames, like the characters calling the protagonist with her full name at all times for some reason, but I personally think this is a case of missing the forest for the trees; those are two little details in a book that tackles some very difficult subjects (loneliness, mental illness and therapy, compromise, friendships, complicated familial relationships, finding out what you're "doing with your life", and more), that gets dark and hard to read but still manages to be hopeful and, well, warm and reassuring that it's going to be okay even if it's not easy or perfect. The characters felt like people, people who are trying to do their best but also being selfish or mean or distant as a result, but they're always given the space to learn from that and become better. All the events felt like a natural real life progression, not the author snapping their fingers and having everything magically be okay in a montage/ timeskip just because we need to end the book on a high note. And I really enjoyed reading it, because I love it when books aren't trying to be perfect little fairy tales of everything just falling into place like puzzle pieces in the third act, the music swelling, and everyone getting exactly what they wanted in the end magically, cue 2000s dance party ending.
Have you ever watched The Shape of Water and been like God, I wish that were me? If yes, this is the book for you!
Exactly what it says on the tin, monHave you ever watched The Shape of Water and been like God, I wish that were me? If yes, this is the book for you!
Exactly what it says on the tin, monsterfucking scene after monsterfucking scene with a bare bones plot just barely (geddit) stringing all the sex scenes together to make up a book. The characters were better written than I expected and the book was overall fun and a quick read, but it's nothing I'd care to revisit. Special shoutout goes to the ridiculously rushed ending....more
First of all: TJ Klune, just because you mention Twilight in the text yourself doesn't make Wolfsong any less of a ripoff. The author trying to ~poke First of all: TJ Klune, just because you mention Twilight in the text yourself doesn't make Wolfsong any less of a ripoff. The author trying to ~poke fun~ at themselves like that in the text itself is always cringeworthy.
Second of all, it's way longer than it needed to be. The repetitiveness in particular got grating fast (especially "because we are packpackpack", "I am the Alpha/ he is the Alpha/ he wants to be Alpha/ how did you become Alpha/ you get to be an Alpha/ he gets to be an Alpha/ we ALL get to be Alphas", "my daddy once told me I was gonna get shit all my life", etc, etc)
Thirdly, there was absolutely no reason at all for the age gap between Ox and Joe. I cannot stress this enough. You could take out the age gap and literally nothing would change in the plot itself. I don't understand why it needed to exist and make the romance yuckier than it already kind of was, considering the two boys were kind of raised like family.
But there's more: the book is incredibly convenient (from Ox, who's supposedly slow on his toes, suddenly becoming verbose and eloquent as hell when the plot calls for it, or being a perfect badass in think-fast fights, to all the humans just.... vibing with the idea of a wolf pack and getting into extensive fighting training with no second thoughts), the author isn't half as funny as he thinks he is (I noticed that in The House in the Cerulean Sea as well), and the Epilogue should have been omitted entirely ((view spoiler)[the idea of "only penetrative sex is REAL sex! Every other sex act doesn't count!" (hide spoiler)] is incredibly outdated)
So, if all the above didn't work in the book's favour, what did? Weirdly, it being a Twilight ripoff made it familiar enough to be sort of.... comfy? I knew what was coming at every turn so I just laid back and enjoyed the no-stakes show. The characters were decently likable, so I wanted to see what happened to them instead of wishing an Omega-related death to befall them. I also 100% see the comparisons with Nora Sakavic's "All for the Game" series, I can't put my finger on why but I felt it too. Probably the entire "found famiy" trope. The aftermath of (view spoiler)[Joe and the others leaving the pack behind to hunt Richard the Big Bad Wolf Villain down (hide spoiler)] was handled really, really well. I loved that (view spoiler)[Ox took his time to think about it, process his feelings and THEN forgive Joe about it instead of being like "*pout* Well, I was mad about it, but now that you're here.... you're forgiven!!!" immediately, on their first meeting. (hide spoiler)]
There's nothing more to say. The book was kind of entertaining but it had many issues and I won't be continuing on with the series....more
The pros: The representation is effortless. Both Houston and Osaka are lovingly rendered and you really feel their specific vibes2,5 stars, rounded up.
The pros: The representation is effortless. Both Houston and Osaka are lovingly rendered and you really feel their specific vibes (yes, this is a highly scientific sentence) I didn't love the "no quote marks" writing style, but it still gave the book a little something special, and made it very dreamy and hazy, very fitting for the uncertainty that the characters are feeling.
The cons: This is another one of those books where you're wondering "Why the hell should I want those two people to be together?/ Every secondary character is more interesting than the two main characters". Mike and Benson are kind of terrible together and I was never cheering for their relationship. They're only staying together because they both want to have their pie (a steady relationship so they're not "alone") and eat it too (have a bunch of flings on the side) No, not all books need to portray healthy relationships that you NEED to be rooting for, but for the entire book, you're in the headspace of those two characters who keep circling back to their relationship, so it needs to be as important to you as the reader as it is for them, and it wasn't for me. Both of those two men are working through some serious issues due to their pasts, and that's one of the points of the book so it makes sense why they're not "perfect" people or perfect together, but in the end the book tries to say that they SHOULD stay together because "they could both do worse" and that's..... really not how it should work when neither person is happy. They both just want the stability of always technically having someone to go back to.
Not a bad book at all, but kind of depressing and bleak tbh....more
It was good but way too cutesy for my liking. LOVED the ownvoices representation and Cecily's magic, didn't care for UwU Roy. Could have been longer aIt was good but way too cutesy for my liking. LOVED the ownvoices representation and Cecily's magic, didn't care for UwU Roy. Could have been longer and more fleshed out in general....more
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