Status Updates From I'll Meet You There

“Creek View was just a place—a part of me, a part of Josh, yes, but not big enough to define us. Not small enough to forget about. Together, it would be easy to map out new territory.”

“I ran my fingers along the raised letters on the dog tags that spelled out all
the pertinent information the military needed about Josh. But the important stuff—how he watched out for me, how good he was at chess, the way he always hit his knee when he laughed—they weren’t the sort of things you could stamp onto a thin piece of metal.”

and here i am yearning for some playboy MMC written in 2017 😭

“If only she knew how much he’d been taking on for me. What was I doing
for him? Nothing. It wasn’t like I could go into Josh’s brain and alter his
memories. Take the war away. Give him his leg back. I’d never felt so
powerless in my life…”

this book is really good…

my last two reads left me devastated by their raw emotions and their complex plots and i can’t summon the courage to pick up something like this again so here we areee 🤪 this book is 9 years old but it has been lingering in my tbr quite a while too.

This is SO American Teenagers by Ethel Cain coded and I’m LOVING IT