Unfortunately this book just didn't do it for me. I guess I should have known when multiple characters talked about how much they love books about old men raping children and having sex with their relatives (One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera).
I found the characters flat and predictable. The psycho-ex girlfriend trope is not done well; a male character gets away with similar shitty behavior because he's doing it for the right reasons, I guess, true love conquers all? There's some random sentence in there about a peripheral character being gay, literally like it was just thrown in there to tick a box and say "hey this book has LGBT representation yo."
The plot twist towards the end was pretty well done and caught me off-guard, but it doesn't undo all the previous eye-rolling at all these characters and their horrible decisions. IDK, are teenagers really like this?
Something I did like: positive representation of a disabled person (one narrator's younger sister).
I found the characters flat and predictable. The psycho-ex girlfriend trope is not done well; a male character gets away with similar shitty behavior because he's doing it for the right reasons, I guess, true love conquers all? There's some random sentence in there about a peripheral character being gay, literally like it was just thrown in there to tick a box and say "hey this book has LGBT representation yo."
The plot twist towards the end was pretty well done and caught me off-guard, but it doesn't undo all the previous eye-rolling at all these characters and their horrible decisions. IDK, are teenagers really like this?
Something I did like: positive representation of a disabled person (one narrator's younger sister).