![]() I’ve heard some serious CRAZY teen stories and you just have to roll your eyes. I also saw a lot of reviews complaining about unrealistic plot/crazy points etc and I also would like to counter-ague that by asking if you have ever met a young person literally full NOT of nonsense? Nope. It actually made them easier to connect to, in my opinion. Teenagers are supposed to make mistakes and be stupid. I can definitely agree that they’re immature because some of the decisions are not very well thought out, but I definitely think it’s realistic. But TEENAGERS ARE LIKE THAT!! I’m about the same age as them I think and I was ready to throw hands and defend the teens but, there was nothing to defend lmao. ![]() They are very judgemental and dramatic and annoying. Which is probably the most controversial aspect of the book. We just got way more critical than I intended but there you go.Īlso, gotta love that college setting because I CURRENTLY RELATE!!! It’s almost as if they’re trying to write for a younger audience yet they’re writing for their own age anyways. They didn’t feel fake or over-dramatic, which SO many authors do. Choi put into these young characters, you can really tell she was writing them with thought. Anyways, moving on, I just loved how much care Mary H.K. Because idk about you but that is not how most people text. It actually starts off quite funny as Sam starts texting with ‘2’s and ‘u’s and I almost raised my eyebrows. Which was also SPOT ON OMG!! This book is sort of multimedia in a sense, as it contains text messages. This may seem a bizarre point to bring up but I loved that.Īlso, I guess I’ll move onto the teen representation. ![]() I’m introverted and have a small group of friends, but I’m not shy or quiet. I’ve read quite a few books now with introverted main characters or characters with social anxiety, and though I relate to them on some level, there are always slight differences. The way that Penny thinks, though probably annoying to some (and I can understand why) but that is me and the way my brain functions. It wasn’t brought up or explicitly highlighted in the book but I felt so SEEN. I also wanted to talk about the anxiety representation. Also LOVED the dual-narrative POV and never got confused between the two of them. It’s been ages since I actually laughed out loud and kept going for like a good few minutes. The main characters are both very cynical, which I find amusing, and that shines through in the writing. Witty and funny but not pretentious and oversaturated. It’s my absolute favourite kind of writing style when it comes to contemporary. Let’s start off with the writing because it was… marvellous. Where do you even begin? It’s one of those books you love everything about yet also have no words to describe? Does that make sense? Probably not but idc. No, I’m not having an early-life crisis, what are you talking about?Īnyways, this book. I don’t even think I know how to review 5-star books anymore. Welp has it been a long time since I’ve loved a YA contemporary. Trigger warnings for sexual assault, panic attacks, racism & alcoholism Literally WTF THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD AND MY HEART IS FULL!!! *insert all the heart eyes* Idk how she did but we do all need to bow down before Ms Choi. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch-via text-and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent.
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