When I picked this book up I didn't expect to finish it so fast, but here I am. Thirsty follows Blake Brenner in the summer before her freshman year of college, and she is aimless but for her, her girlfriend, Ella, and her best friend, Annetta's, plan to be inducted into the prestigious Serena Society. Ella and Annetta are legacy invitees of this POC secret society, but Blake has to work harder to prove herself, and so she drinks until she's drowning in horrible thoughts; she drinks to block our her anxiety, she drinks to be happier, but all the drink does is invite hateful thoughts into her head. She makes bad decisions that her girlfriend overlooks and her best friend tries to clean up, and she makes a lot of mistakes, but by the end of the book, she's someone you can't help but be proud of. The magic of this book is that you really do hate Blake at the start, but that's because she hates herself. When she learns to care about herself and put herself first, right there, rooting for her.
The writing is face paced and it gets right up in your feelings, and Jas Hammonds did an incredible job on their second book.
The writing is face paced and it gets right up in your feelings, and Jas Hammonds did an incredible job on their second book.