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May have some vague spoilerish comments below, but attempting to keep this review spoiler-free:
It is refreshing to read a book about characters with flaws and mental turmoil that is not glossed over by the narrative. Manee is imperfect, Stephanie is May have some vague spoilerish comments below, but attempting to keep this review spoiler-free:
It is refreshing to read a book about characters with flaws and mental turmoil that is not glossed over by the narrative. Manee is imperfect, Stephanie is imperfect, but they are still valued, important, they still deserve to find love, and family. I also enjoyed the focus being on the journey of the two main characters healing and finding a support system than the focus being solely on romance without a plot that makes sense to the characters- which is a complaint I hear often from my friends who frequently read wlw literature.
The focus on trauma and death may not be to everyone's taste, but I did find a refreshing and I think YA readers can relate, from what I remember of being a relatively average teenager in a friend-group of relatively average teenagers is that we were indeed fascinated by the topic of death and violence (we were not the goths, i promise) and it would not have been unhelpful to have narratives available to us that directly addressed those fears and curiosities that live in all of us. In a way, Manee only knows what we all already know about the inevitable fate of those around us, maybe the book is saying something about how we find ways to make a life worth living in an absurd reality where everyone we know it will one day disappear? In a cumulative moment for Manee towards the end of the book, she does come to a catharsis that suggests that she has found an important answer to this question, one that I found very emotionally satisfying....more
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