i really loved most of this book, but the end didn't quite work for me i think, so i'm left not quite sure what to thinki really loved most of this book, but the end didn't quite work for me i think, so i'm left not quite sure what to think...more
This was SO fun, like I was just so thoroughly invested and enjoyed every second of this. It's ridiculous and cheesy but in the best sorts of ways, anThis was SO fun, like I was just so thoroughly invested and enjoyed every second of this. It's ridiculous and cheesy but in the best sorts of ways, and I just had such a fun time with it. Audiobook is also 10/10...more
this was cheesy and absurd but it was just such a fun read, the characters were so compelling and the writing was good and I didn't want to stop readithis was cheesy and absurd but it was just such a fun read, the characters were so compelling and the writing was good and I didn't want to stop reading, and like sure, it's not a book that i necessarily need to recommend to everyone or anything, but i think it did exactly what it set out to do and did it well...more
Sophie Gonzales literally never misses! This was so fucking fun
I mean like this is an objectively hilarious premise, first of all. It also does a goodSophie Gonzales literally never misses! This was so fucking fun
I mean like this is an objectively hilarious premise, first of all. It also does a good job at balancing like genuine love and respect for fandom and fanfic with the fact that the main character is,,,,,,,,, sort of an awful writer lmao. Like it's definitely poking some fun at certain fanfic cliches, but it's done in a way that feels very affectionate, and as someone who reads and writes a lot of fanfic, I was losing my shit the entire time.
At the same time though, like every Sophie Gonzales book, it was also very genuine and heartfelt, and the characters were fantastic. This book got wacky and wild and completely out there at times, but it all worked *so well* because at it's core, it was so emotional and character-driven, and I just! love her writing!! so much!!...more
it's two in the morning and i should be asleep but what if i just cried over this book instead <33 it's just,,,,, goddamn. this was so fucking beautifit's two in the morning and i should be asleep but what if i just cried over this book instead <33 it's just,,,,, goddamn. this was so fucking beautifully written honestly and i'm obsessed with it. the characters are such a fucking delight, and they all feel so real and complex and have i mentioned i love them!!!
also just... god, this book hits. as a queer teen who grew up on the internet—which I owe so much to, and wouldn't have come to terms with my queerness half as easily without, but which also made it harder in a lot of ways—the stuff this book touched on hit really hard, because on so many levels, I've been Imogen. and I'd probably have been Imogen a lot more if not for Simon Vs, tbh, so everyone say thank you Becky Albertalli <3
anyways it's late and i'm falling asleep and probably not making any sense but. very good book. 10/10 recommend...more
please ignore that i started this more than a year ago. it was on my kindle. i lost my kindle cord (or honestly maybe it was the kindle itself?? it's please ignore that i started this more than a year ago. it was on my kindle. i lost my kindle cord (or honestly maybe it was the kindle itself?? it's been so long i don't even remember) and by the time i found it again i'd sort of forgotten i was in the middle of this
anyways I started over again a few days ago and proceeded to spend hours listening to the audiobook when I was supposed to be doing homework, and oh my god I loved it so much
I don't have a whole ton of coherent thoughts right now and also I don't have time to write a full review because I really need to go read Beowulf now for class since that's what i SHOULD have been doing all the hours i spent lying around reading this instead, but this was very good, I loved the romance, I loved the nuance given to all the girls' relationships with jordy and the show instead of dismissing them like would have been so easy, I loved Maya and Skye, I loved the ending, I loved all of this honestly. truly I have no complaints, but honestly when do I ever have complaints about Sophie Gonzales' books
anyways this was fantastic, so much fun, very highly recommend it, way more interesting than Beowulf (this might not be fair to say since i have not yet started Beowulf but also Beowulf isn't about queer girls on reality TV so I think it automatically loses points for that), I'm really just procrastinating now but ohmygod I swear I didn't just binge this in three days because I was avoiding my homework, I had plenty of other things I could have avoided my homework with, but this was just an incredibly fun and compelling read and I very much adore it...more
y'all don't even understand how much I love this series. I'm going to try to form coherent thoughts here finally but I don't really know how because ty'all don't even understand how much I love this series. I'm going to try to form coherent thoughts here finally but I don't really know how because this is probably my favourite series ever and most of the thoughts I have are either complex analysis half-stolen from friends that I can't go into without spoiling things or else just nonsense noises of various emotions
this is honestly probably my least favourite of the series, just because it had so much to live up to, but it's still a fantastic conclusion! there's one thing at the end I wish had been set up a tiny bit better, and I do really wish we got a little more closure for some of the side characters, but honestly, there was so much going on in this series that I think in order to keep this last book to a reasonable length, she sort of had to pick and choose what to focus on, and I think it was done well! the important stuff was resolved, and I have my imagination and a bunch of friends who are also obsessed with this series for the rest. overall, I'd rather come away from a series wanting more than feeling like they overdid it, and for such an ambitious and complicated series, the more I sit with it, the more I feel like this finale was exactly what it needed to be
I think on a personal level, Lee and Annie's Furysong storylines are probably the least interesting to me, next to their storylines from the first two books and the other characters' storylines in this one, but that's not to say they're bad, either! they're still fun, and narratively speaking I think they're actually really good, they just don't focus on the things that give me, personally, the most brainrot about this series. all that said, I do still really love a lot of aspects of them!
going to get into some spoilers here, just briefly! (view spoiler)[I really appreciate the fact that Annie is finally truly given a choice of what she wants to do with her life, after so long of never having had the autonomy to do that, and I also really appreciate that she chooses dragonriding! it's bittersweet, for sure, because I want her and Lee to be happy together, but I also think it's really powerful to have her not choose romance, and for that not to be a tragedy! and I think it fits really well with her character (hide spoiler)] I also really love (view spoiler)[how both Lee and Delo end up in supporting roles instead of being the heroes of the story. Delo's line, right at the end, "Let them sing of others." knocked the wind right out of me, because it was such a testament to how far he'd come as a character, but also because it's such a powerful sentiment expressed in both his and Lee's character arcs (although they of course had very different arcs). I love that this book took these two dragonborn boys who have been primed their whole life to be leaders (Delo by the dragonborn of course, but Lee too by Atreus's regime) and had them realize that they don't need that, and they could choose instead to support the people they love in being leaders and help nurture the next generation. they both could have been "heroes" in the public eye, but they were both able to be much more heroic by putting aside their pride and lifting up others who were better suited to those roles, and that's soooo important to me <3 (hide spoiler)]
anyways on that note, Griff and Delo are so incredibly special to me as well. as much as I understand they were secondary main characters to Lee and Annie, and their story didn't need as much page time, I will forever wish I had gotten to see more of them, because I love them So Much. Griff is such a little shit and I love him and his attitude. his arc in this book. hurt. a lot. that's all I can really say without spoilers but. ow. anyways I love him!! and then Delo.... god I'm so obsessed with Delo. I can't believe we don't get a Delo POV until Furysong, because his POV is so fucking good holy shit. but at the same time, I think his POV was only really needed in this book, because of the way power dynamics shifted after Flamefall. and fuck his arc in this one.... god tier. it's so good. I love him so much. and then of course Griff and Delo together are so good too ohmygod I love when romances are a little messed up but also the softest thing I've ever read. best fucking dynamic I love them so much ohmygod
also the side characters? obsessed with them! it's very hard to talk about the ones that compel me most in Furysong without spoilers, so I'm gonna briefly say some spoiler things. (view spoiler)[okay obviously Power?? incredible character arc. he's such a dick even when he's redeeming himself, but he's SUCH a good character ohmygod. and the scene where he told Ixion he was nuts for Annie? iconic behaviour! I feel like Power's the most obvious character to discuss here, because he's probably given the most page time of the side characters, but I'm also a little bit obsessed with Lotus and Rock's dynamic in this one because... yeah. it's so painful and I'm so mad at Lotus but also I feel for him, because you can tell he had no idea how bad it would get, and he just wanted Rock to be safe, but also.... use one single braincell Lotus my dude. also, I'm quite compelled by Phemi in this one? we don't see much of her in Flamefall, and when we do it's not with much depth, but he arc in Furysong is so fascinating to me. I'm not quite sure what I like... think of her overall, but I do know she's a really well-written character in this one! I can't decide if I like her, because she probably should have had some qualms about rigging explosives before they killed someone, but like. god she's well written (hide spoiler)]
I think what I keep coming back to with this series is how much depth every single character has. even the worst of the worst characters feel so deeply human. that doesn't mean you like them, or even sympathize with them, but you understand how they got where they are. even Ixion, who I hate with every single cell in my body, feels human. he's awful and irredeemable and his past doesn't excuse it even slightly, but you still understand how his past has shaped him into who he is today. and this applies to all the characters, from the ones you hate, to the ones you love (all of whom are still so deeply flawed) to the ones you can't make up your mind on because they're so goddamn complicated and well-written
and then I could spend hours (okay let's be real I have spent hours) discussing all the themes and parallels and cycles in this series, but there is no way I can coherently make sense of them in this setting, so I'll just say there are so many layers here, and they make me absolutely insane. the way the series is both about cycles repeating and about breaking cycles, the way every single detail seems to matter so deliberately, the way this is a story about language and the stories we tell with it while also being an action-packed book about dragons, and I know I'm not making a lot of sense here (I swear I have way more intelligent things to say about these books when I'm not trying to boil it down to something easy to put in a review with very few spoilers) but you just have to read the books to understand I think
anyways this series is incredible and I loved rereading it so much!! also, the audiobooks are very good, 10/10 recommend
first read reaction, august 12, 2022: okay I need time to like. process. but I will say that (1) holy fuck this was so good, and (2) I had not finished a book since the beginning of june and I just finished the last third of the first book + the second and third books in this series in the past 25 hours. what I did not do is sleep. decisions were made and they were bad ones but rn I'm riding such a high from this fucking series that I don't even care
anyways do not be like me please sleep, but also please read this fucking series it will devastate you
pre-read comments, probably last summer lmao
I both need this and am absolutely terrified for this...more
god this book is so. fuck. i have no words (this is a lie i have many many words but they are mostly incoherent and extremely spoilery so i save them god this book is so. fuck. i have no words (this is a lie i have many many words but they are mostly incoherent and extremely spoilery so i save them for my DMs with my aurelian cycle friends <3)
i think this one is probably my favourite in the series though because it's just so incredibly insanity inducing and there are so many layers and there's delo and griff and there's some absolutely wild character arcs and there's just so many brilliant little details and. literally i cannot say anything without spoilers but oh my goddddddd
second read, August 12, 2022: GONNA. JUST GO FUCKING SCREAM NOW THIS BOOK IS SO AHHHHH
this book leaves me absolutely speechless. this is the first time i've read it since reading furysong, and everything hits so much harder knowing the this book leaves me absolutely speechless. this is the first time i've read it since reading furysong, and everything hits so much harder knowing the characters and where the story is going so much better this time around. and it's just. it's so smart holy shit. every tiny little detail is so well thought out, and just. holy shit.
i definitely think this is a series that gets better and better every time i read it, because there are so many fucking layers.
genuinely this is one of the best series i've ever read. it took so much effort not to start swearing to myself on the bus about how masterfully done this book is, because just. it's so fucking good
second read, august 11 2022 ow. ow ow ow
(pls disregard that this took me like two months to get through, I got covid and then my library loan expired lmao)
first read review, march 5th 2021
hi so wow
like seriously wow this was amazing
on an actual personal enjoyment scale, this is probably more like four stars because I definitely struggled with getting through it at times, but honestly I'm just in awe of how well everything was woven together and handled, so this is getting five stars because I . . . couldn't read this and not give it five stars, it was just too good
this book is honestly so brilliant. the way it handles political and social issues is so nuanced and complicated and *screams* like just the way the new regime was better than the old one but also still absolutely horrible, and the way the characters were so determined to be good but still did things that were not good and im just blown away holy fuck this was so incredible, and I feel like the logical choice would have been to tell it from the pov of someone who was unquestionably certain that the new regime was bad news but the book was so much stronger for being told instead through the perspective of people who were caught in a moral clusterfuck of bad decisions because it did such a good job of showing the humanness of it all and how they could excuse it away to themselves without actually excusing it in the narrative and just. wow. I am in awe
also I would do anything for lee and annie and want to hug them a lot because they deserve it
(also I had so much fun buddy reading this with enne and mora, ily both <333)...more
the amount of time it took me to get to this book is honestly embarrassing, but I think I was a little nervous it wasn't going to live up to my expectthe amount of time it took me to get to this book is honestly embarrassing, but I think I was a little nervous it wasn't going to live up to my expectations, because I loved the first book so much
honestly I'm still processing this book a bit, because like I had it so hyped up in my head for almost four years and then read it in the span of three days, but my initial impression is that it was really fucking good. I'm still digesting the ending for sure, but I think I liked it? I definitely loved the book as a whole—the characters are just as good as they were in the first book, and I loved getting to see more of the world outside of Ziran, and it was just!! very good!! made me emotional!!! i need to process all the emotions now but i am so glad i finally read this
pre-reading, dec 2020: the fact that I won't have this book in my hands until summer 2021 is an actual crime...more
if you're reading for plot this one is probably just okay (it certainly wasn't bad, and a couple of twists left me reehi this was SO good like goddamn
if you're reading for plot this one is probably just okay (it certainly wasn't bad, and a couple of twists left me reeling, but overall it wasn't the strongest point here), but i have never been a plot-driven reader, and ohmygod the characters were so fucking compelling here. they all had so much depth, even the the awful ones, and the dynamics between them were so good too and just idek i loved this sm
i feel like at the start of the book, in large part because of how Teo views things at first, i was like "oh yeah this is definitely fucked up but half the competitors here are basically soulless assholes so whatever", but by halfway through the premise was just gutwrenching, because no matter how much some of them suck, these are all just kids, and Aiden Thomas does a fantastic job at conveying the intensity of the situation for all of them, even the ones you aren't necessarily rooting for
anyways in short this was fantastic. great characters, great worldbuilding, great build-up of tension, just all in all great everything tbh. i want the next book so badly holy shit i'm so invested
Pre reading, who tf even knows when: I need it now I need it now I need it NOW please this sounds so amazing I want it so bad, 2022 hurry tf up, I need this book in my hands nowwww (Also wow i was so funny thinking i'd read this in 2022 lmfao)...more
I feel like I remembered this as like good but not great, but honestly on rereading it this book is actually so fucking good. I was so hooked, even knI feel like I remembered this as like good but not great, but honestly on rereading it this book is actually so fucking good. I was so hooked, even knowing what was going to happen, and the characters are so compelling, and it was just! really enjoyable!!
April 20, 2021
hi wow I adored this
I mean, I'm not surprised, seeing as it was one of my most anticipated reads of the year, but I'm still reeling a bit too
like. wow. so many passages really resonated with me, and also I would just do anything for these characters ahhhhh...more
i listened to half of this while like feverish and bordering on delirious lying in bed with my eyes closed so i cannot really say much coherent about i listened to half of this while like feverish and bordering on delirious lying in bed with my eyes closed so i cannot really say much coherent about it but i enjoyed it and the audiobook was very good for listening to while sick so like. good book ...more
This was sort of a little bit devastating. Finishing it right before bed was a terrible idea. Overall, I really liked this! A few bits felt maybe a liThis was sort of a little bit devastating. Finishing it right before bed was a terrible idea. Overall, I really liked this! A few bits felt maybe a little awkwardly written, but it was easy enough to look past.
Wendy was a really compelling character, and I loved reading about her. Peter was fun too, but Wendy was the star for me! She had this quiet determination that drove her throughout the whole book, even when everything was hopeless, and it was so powerfully written.
I think most of all what hit me about this book was the nostalgia. It's a book so steeped in nostalgia for Wendy's childhood, and so many little details were so reminiscent of my own childhood as well, so it really struck a chord in me. The atmosphere of the book is so strong, and it's so gorgeously done. I could see the woods, and the small town, and the quiet houses that shouldn't have been quiet, and it was such a delight to read about.
Lost in the Never woods definitely isn't for everyone; it's a lot quieter and subtler than Aiden Thomas's other books, and I think it's either going to really work for someone or not click at all. But for me, it definitely worked....more
Third read, June 4, 2024: You know, sometimes you return to an old favourite years later and it's still fun, you still really like it, but it's more nThird read, June 4, 2024: You know, sometimes you return to an old favourite years later and it's still fun, you still really like it, but it's more nostalgic than an actual current favourite? I was sort of expecting to feel that way about this book. I knew I loved the characters, of course, but when I first read this book, I was in a very bad place mentally, and so rereading it now, I didn't really think it would mean as much to me as it did three years ago. And that would have been okay, I've changed, I still would have loved the book, but it turns out, this book still touches something deep within me in a way that very few books do.
The way Malik's mental health is treated in this book genuinely means so much to me. I don't need that with the same desperation that I did when I first read this, but it still resonates in a way that always knocks the wind out of me. To start with, I think it's just well-written. It's clearly written by someone who has a basic grasp on how anxiety works (which is a low bar, but still, I've seen some shit), and she has a lot of skill with conveying emotions through her writing, and those two things come together into something that I find somewhat relatable (although it's not actually particularly similar to how my own anxiety manifests) and also just well-executed on a sort of technical writing level.
But it's also more than that. I've read a lot of books with what I would say is well-written anxiety rep, and they don't usually mean this much to me. Malik's arc is just done with so much care. I guess what really means so much to me isn't the anxiety itself, but how it works with the rest of his storyline. It's not the main focus, but it's so deeply present. I love that it's not written as 'oh it's actually a superpower'—the anxiety is a constant roadblock, making everything in the book harder for him—but it still acknowledges the strength he has built up to endure it. (view spoiler)[There's just something so delightful to me about the fact that he's gotten so used to battling figurative demons in his own mind that he is also able to fight a very literal demon in his own mind, because like, yeah. Mental illness sucks, and it makes your mind a very miserable place to live, but if you are even sort of vaguely coping, your mind is probably a lot stronger than people give you credit for. And so seeing that in Malik, seeing him realize that strength and use it in such a pivotal moment in the story, that just means a lot. (hide spoiler)]
Anyways I'm supposed to be cleaning my room not rambling for paragraphs on end about how much this book still means to me, but it's just so good. All emotional tangents aside, it's also just a really well crafted book. Roseanne A. Brown is a brilliant writer, and every aspect of this book feels so rich and beautifully fleshed out. The characters and the world are so vivid, written in such an evocative way that I feel them in my bones. And the way she writes emotion really does just spill off the page. Also, the audiobook? 10/10.
Second read, March 25th 2021: I know I just read this in December, but I was missing Malik and Karina so I buddy read this with my lovely friend Dezzy (ilyyy this was so fun <333), and omg I think I loved it even more the second time around. this book is just so good. from the beautiful handling of mental health issues to the fantastic character arcs to the powerful commentary on colonialism and discrimination, this book is honestly just a masterpiece.
10/10 would do anything for Malik and Karina, and like Roseanne A. Brown's writing? top notch. the whole book was just so engaging, and it had just as much emotional impact the second time around, and just!! ahhh!! I loved it so much!!
this was honestly my favourite book of 2020, and I cannot wait to read A Psalm of Storms and Silence and omg I'm just feeling ALL the feelings how can a book have this much of an impact on me even when I already knew what was gonna happen since it was a reread ahhhh it's just SO GOOD
First read, December 18 2020: hi wow this was fucking incredible. I had high expectations for this book, but . . . I didn't expect to love it so much either? fantasy, especially dark, world-building heavy fantasy like this is, just hasn't been so much my thing lately. but I am so glad I ignored my craving for fluff to read this book, because it blew me away
I'm genuinely in awe of so much in this book and I just . . . wow. I would do anything for these characters, the world building was incredible, the plot twists took my breath away, and the way mental illness was handled was really refreshing and may have made me cry
I don't have the words to express how fucking good this book was but go read it pls it's fantastic...more
this book remains so good and also absolutely devastating
there is so much packed into Ash and Quill—set up for plot threads in future books, ever-chanthis book remains so good and also absolutely devastating
there is so much packed into Ash and Quill—set up for plot threads in future books, ever-changing character dynamics, the singular most romantic letter I have ever read, tensions that feel higher than ever, and just so so so many fascinating little moments and details and oughhhh this book is insane
I remember not loving this book as much the first time around, but I think it might be my favourite in the series so far this time around—it's painful, but it's also so brilliantly done
I will say. this was the first book where having used a printing press since the last time I read this series did break my immersion a little bit, because I had some questions about some terminology, but.... it was close enough lmaooooo I'll cut them some slack they haven't had hundreds of years to hone this technology
Second read, April 5, 2019
5 stars
THE ENDING OF THIS BOOK HURT JUST AS MUCH THE SECOND TIME AROUND AJGHJHGF MY HEART.
RTC maybe?
***First read review***
4.5 stars
This book was intense and amazing, and OH MY GOODNESS I NEED THE NEXT BOOK NOW!!! I really loved this book, I just had a few issues... First of all, it sort of sagged in the middle a bit. There were a couple times when I just found my attention wandering, because I didn't really care that Jess was tired of sanding glass. It's like, yes Jess, I'm tired of it too! Do something interesting already! My other complaint was just that I felt like the characters made some pretty idiotic decisions. They couldn't have come up with anything else?! Especially one big thing at the end... There must have been something they could do!
(view spoiler)[And I'm completely furious at him because Wolfe is my precious darling, and I cannot believe Jess would send him back to prison like that! HOW Jess?!?! HOW?!?!?!?! Wolfe had better be okay, or else I'm going to find some way to murder Jess. Although... I probably won't have to, because Santi will do it for me. (hide spoiler)]
Anyways, there were a couple things that annoyed me, but overall I loved this book! And I need book four RIGHT NOW!...more
This was very fun! I don't think this is one I'd reread as often as I could a book like Simon Vs or Imogen Obviously, but it had been so long since I'This was very fun! I don't think this is one I'd reread as often as I could a book like Simon Vs or Imogen Obviously, but it had been so long since I'd read it that I didn't remember much at all, so I really enjoyed it!
I think on a personal level, I probably don't connect to this one as much. Becky Albertalli writes incredible characters, and honestly, had I read this in like 2020, it probably would have hit really hard for me. as is, it's a book I enjoyed (and, okay, I will admit I cried a little), but it's very much a book that without that connection, I guess I feel a little old for now. and that's okay! I am a little old for it! it was a very good book, and I enjoyed it, and maybe in another five years I'll even reread it and enjoy it again.
it really is a very good book! i had fun! i don't have much more to say about it
leaving my old review up because it is SO funny to me but also. i was fifteen please don't read it and/or take anything i said in it seriously. i am fucking losing my mind at the fact that i called will "... definitely a bad influence" like first of all teenage iris. he was not the only one who wanted to drink. why is he solely the bad influence here. second of all you were a goody two shoes who would probably be soooo scandalized if you knew you grew up to be friends with someone who once drank before going to a class she hated and you thought it was hilarious, let alone if you realized you would ever drink a single sip of alcohol yourself (view spoiler)[This book was AMAZING!! I am so in love with it right now! Yes, it wasn't quite as good as Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda, but really? That's not saying much. That book was SO good, I just didn't even let myself compare them.
PLOT
Yeah, uh, okay, did this book even have a plot? It sort of did, but it was definitely character driven, and I can't quite pinpoint what the plot WAS. Like it was there, and I know it was there, I just can't quite figure out which aspect of this book was the plot.
CHARACTERS
OH MY GOSH THE CHARACTERS IN THIS!!!!!!!! They were only the most amazing things ever!!! Seriously, I AM SO HAPPY!! Because these characters are AWESOME!!
Molly was SO relatable! First of all, she spent a lot of time online, which is most certainly relatable, but also I swear she was me!
She kept saying/wondering/thinking things that I completely would have said/wondered/thought.
'I feel tongue-tied. Not even tongue-tied. I mean, my tongue isn't the problem. It's my brain. It's like this: Me: Hey, brain. Let's think of something cool to say! Brain: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Me: Okay, it doesn't have to be cool. Just something semi-coherent... Brain: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Me: COME ON, BRAIN, GIVE ME SOMETHING.'
Is that relatable or what? Also hilarious! This book was SO funny!
Reid was also great. He was so nerdy and also he cracked me up. And he was obsessed with Mini Eggs. He was one of my favourite characters for sure!
Will was... definitely a bad influence. But at the same time, I sort of liked him. Quite a lot at times.
Mina was also great. I really liked her, but right now I'm blanking on what it was about her that I liked so much. Probably because it's currently ten O'clock at night, and I'm tired.
Also some of the characters from Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda made an appearance!!! I went into this completely not realizing it was about Abby's cousin, so this came as a surprise to me. I also somehow managed to put together the fact that her cousin's name was Abby, and her last name was Peskin-Suso, and DUH, Abby Suso. But no, of course I didn't put that together until it mentioned Simon. Great job Iris, really stellar job.
Anyways, I was SO happy when they showed up, because I love them, and just YAY!
OTHER STUFF
I just want to mention that this book was also incredibly diverse! It made me really happy to see so much diversity in one book, because sadly, it's fairly uncommon.
Molly has two moms, her sister is also lesbian, her family and another family are jewish, one of her moms and her younger brother are black, Molly has anxiety, and possibly a couple more things that I'm missing. These characters make up more than half the cast, and it just made me so happy to see how diverse this book is.
OVER ALL
This book is absolutely amazing! I am simply in awe of Becky Albertalli's writing, and wow, just WOW! If you haven't already read this book, I'm telling you, you should! It is absolutely spectacular! (hide spoiler)]...more
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