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Sixteen-year-old Rose Bellwick is the terror of Gillsberry Academy. After rotating through five roommates and a girlfriend, she is eager for expulsion. The last thing she wants is a shot at redemption.
After another bloody fight, Rose again finds herself in the office, but a new roommate wasn’t what she expected. Especially one as unique as Lily Lockwood, a girl who happily trades homeschool for the unknown of Gillsberry. Despite a severe visual impairment, Lily is eager to prove she is one hundred percent normal. Rose meanwhile wants her never to forget she is one hundred percent not.
To Rose and the rest of Gillsberry, Lily may as well be an alien with a cane. An oddity that Rose happily torments both inside their dorm room and out. However, Rose didn’t count on the resilience or the pushback.
As her original motivation drains, an unexpected friendship blooms. The girl Rose wishes so much to leave now occupies most of her thoughts. And while it satisfies Lily to have her first friend, Rose can’t help but want more. Together the two set out on a journey meshed in inexperience.
After another bloody fight, Rose again finds herself in the office, but a new roommate wasn’t what she expected. Especially one as unique as Lily Lockwood, a girl who happily trades homeschool for the unknown of Gillsberry. Despite a severe visual impairment, Lily is eager to prove she is one hundred percent normal. Rose meanwhile wants her never to forget she is one hundred percent not.
To Rose and the rest of Gillsberry, Lily may as well be an alien with a cane. An oddity that Rose happily torments both inside their dorm room and out. However, Rose didn’t count on the resilience or the pushback.
As her original motivation drains, an unexpected friendship blooms. The girl Rose wishes so much to leave now occupies most of her thoughts. And while it satisfies Lily to have her first friend, Rose can’t help but want more. Together the two set out on a journey meshed in inexperience.
- GenresLesbian
261 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 7, 2020
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May 5, 2021
I liked the story, but unfortunately I found the end too abrupt. What I do find unsatisfactory is that the POV in the book keeps jumping between first-person and third-person, sometimes even within the same sentence.
March 13, 2021
The key takeaway from this tale appears to be that wealthy individuals may be as physically and emotionally abusive of their peer group as they like without fear of meaningful consequences. This even extends to disabled roommates who are so desperate to escape overprotective parents that they will fall in love with an abuser.
While it is clear that each of the main characters could use some counseling there is none in evidence. When the dust finally settles, Lily has an escape of sorts and Rose is apparently free to keep smashing in peoples' faces.
While it is clear that each of the main characters could use some counseling there is none in evidence. When the dust finally settles, Lily has an escape of sorts and Rose is apparently free to keep smashing in peoples' faces.
May 31, 2021
What???
Two stars for that absolute crap and disappointing endings, so disappointing, especially since it was decent enough up till then
Two stars for that absolute crap and disappointing endings, so disappointing, especially since it was decent enough up till then
June 6, 2022
The changing of the narrative voice and the unfit punctuation led me to give it only 2 stars.
November 13, 2022
The main character was so effing mean that I couldn’t finish the first chapter.
January 3, 2025
It's a story that didn't have much of a conclusion. I get they tried to do an open ending but it needs a part 2 or novella to wrap up the story.
May 29, 2022
While the writing was good, and the story moved at a good pace, I cannot say I enjoyed this book. Rose and Lily’s relationship is rather toxic, from start to finish.
Rose is obviously depressed; the real, clinical kind. It’s not expressed in the book in any way, something which angers me greatly, but it’s easy to see if you know the signs: perpetual boredom, lack of appetite, hours spent doing nothing while having no perception of the time that has passed, bulling to try and feel something... And yet, the words “depressed“ or “depression” weren’t mentioned once. And neither was “bullying“, for that matter; both really sensitive topics that were handled awfully in this book.
Regarding Lily, She was a girl desperate to escape her overprotective, oppressive parents; she claimed independence in everything she did but craved attention and approval so badly that she let her peers walk all over her without a single word and with a smile firmly in place. Being a blind teenager in a new, foreign place is certainly difficult, extremely so, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a doormat.
As for the rest... well, we have a girl so obsessed with Rose that she cleanly jumped over the border and landed smack dab in the middle of creepy-stalker-land (all the while being portrayed as a pure girl that was “in love” and only “wanted to help”), a disgusting teacher smart enough to wait until his students were of age to seduce and fuck them, and a headmistress so corrupt that she ignored anything, and I really mean anything, for the appropriate amount of money.
So yeah, I really disliked this book. I definitely do not recommend it. I didn’t find it enjoyable, but whether it’s good or not remains to be seen. As always, any question regarding my review, you’re welcome to ask
Rose is obviously depressed; the real, clinical kind. It’s not expressed in the book in any way, something which angers me greatly, but it’s easy to see if you know the signs: perpetual boredom, lack of appetite, hours spent doing nothing while having no perception of the time that has passed, bulling to try and feel something... And yet, the words “depressed“ or “depression” weren’t mentioned once. And neither was “bullying“, for that matter; both really sensitive topics that were handled awfully in this book.
Regarding Lily, She was a girl desperate to escape her overprotective, oppressive parents; she claimed independence in everything she did but craved attention and approval so badly that she let her peers walk all over her without a single word and with a smile firmly in place. Being a blind teenager in a new, foreign place is certainly difficult, extremely so, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a doormat.
As for the rest... well, we have a girl so obsessed with Rose that she cleanly jumped over the border and landed smack dab in the middle of creepy-stalker-land (all the while being portrayed as a pure girl that was “in love” and only “wanted to help”), a disgusting teacher smart enough to wait until his students were of age to seduce and fuck them, and a headmistress so corrupt that she ignored anything, and I really mean anything, for the appropriate amount of money.
So yeah, I really disliked this book. I definitely do not recommend it. I didn’t find it enjoyable, but whether it’s good or not remains to be seen. As always, any question regarding my review, you’re welcome to ask
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