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Story 1: Gender Studies. Idk that I really connected to it in only 19 pages but it was alright. If I were Nell I too would’ve blamed the bus driver bc he’s a trump supported, but I don’t think that’s what I was supposed to take away. Something something class, something something power imbalance

Are we ever gonna get to the future timeline or is that in another book?

Idk if it’s just because the past couple books I’ve read have been adult, and now this is YA, but the tone of the narration is throwing me off a bit. Wasn’t expecting the main characters to be 13 years old, so maybe it’s just more immature than I anticipated.

Clare Pooley is trying to make me like Piers, which would be working better if there weren’t chapters from his POV; she’s completely changing everything about him including his internal monologue, presumably because she made him so irredeemably awful in the first few chapters that the only way to move on is just to forget what he used to be like entirely

Still struggling to figure out who everyone on the cover is actually supposed to be

Only on page 39 and I'm already annoyed at the amount of times Rafia has called Frey 'little sister'. I swear it's been about 5 times already. Noone says this in real life!

'Their oldest son goes to school in Genève. Or didn't you know that?'
I shake my head. Because I didn't know the Palafoxes had a son.

Calling it right now - there's going to be a romance subplot with the son!

Not liking it, maybe because of the old-fashioned writing style. I''l pick it up again sometime, but not in the mood now