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“Good,” I murmured, meaning every word

I mean … what word in that sentence doesn’t have conviction, buddy?

Wait, is there somehow 3 days in this weekend? All day prep with teenagers for prom, swimming the next day, and the third day in a row, church?

Why does Lily claiming the prom as hers feel creepy rather than sweet?

What's a permanent hardware store look?

This is the second or third conversation Ethan has had in his truck with his dad that says the exact same thing ON THE SAME DAY

Why is lily suddenly a toddler while watching a high school musical production? Maybe I’m too English for her overreactions

Why “you didn’t hear it from me” about the lead of a play? I like this story but there’s so many tiny niggly little things that could be edited to make it shine

Lunch? They went fishing then helped at a farm and now they're just having lunch?!

Wasn’t Ethan really suspicious of Lily? There’s some inconsistency here

Wait, Lynn just dropped off muffins for breakfast and now they’re going to dinner?

Nooooo, don’t give a cat milk!

Big Friday night plans … on a Sunday? As established by the church attendance earlier?

Chapter 9 was confusing. Does Lily want to belong or not? She mentioned her past so often but it flipflopped constantly between wanting to belong and not wanting to get attached. And it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't change with every word uttered by a character.

Ethan spoke “low and edged” twice

Given there's references to Salt'n'Pepa ('92), Backstreet Boys ('95 earliest, '97 solid fame) and a Nokia that can be closed (??? Mobiles were popular from like 2000, but there were absolute bricks in the early nineties, don't remember them being Nokia though) I'd love to know when in the 1990's this book was set.

I'm a wee bit confused. Lynn spoke, but then there was silence after Ethan's words?

Also confused previously by the briefcase snapping closed "like sealing a deal"

Solved my issue and got the book on a different platform.

Want expecting this to feel like 4 mini stories stuck together. Don't need the repetition of who is who from the start of part 2.

But my more pressing concern: Gina is worried Max will cheat but she's already kissed Ben? We don't like hypocrisy in these here parts

I was enjoying this book, I got free with the S&S email sign up. But OMG the glose pages are virtually unreadable. If you're lucky, a chapter loads. I managed to get through the first 4 but have waited for loading more than I've read, which is a huge disservice to the story which so far feels like a cosy romcom

Ahhhh, I've been ignoring the typos (a line edit would have gone down a treat) but you can see one in a copy paste and it's down to me. Causal instead of casual. Causal means something very different to the context in this particular usage

Enjoying it so far but there's a couple of lines in this chapter I don't quite understand. Putting it down to regional dialect. Impressed someone can snort to a point they lose their balance!

There's missing punctuation. In the prose, not the text message excerpts

How can both chapters 47 and 48 be at nearly midday when there's a pretty lengthy and emotional conversation in there?

Also, the frequency of these kids missing school is sending alarm bells. Mainly Sophie and Max

Wait, is Laurie a boy or a girl? Genderfluid? Last scene they were in it said he, this scene says she.

There's an editor credited, but I'd love to see the proof.

The constant "why am I like this?" Feels like a rip off of Alice Oseman and that gives me an ick. They're a little misplaced in the text, would be fine without it

I'm a few pages on, but continuity error: Lucas read out his project, some kids gave feedback, then the teacher did. Then the teacher opened it up to the creative writing group. Who are way harsh in their feedback. But yeah, editor should have caught that

I've been loving this book so far despite my brain wandering about, but oh, do I hate the slapstick scenes in a book. Lucas and Grayson could have had a perfectly awkward first date without the absolute clowning of the last couple of pages. Also, the dad is way OOC in the last chapter. I'm disappointed in an otherwise 5 star book

Dropped speech marks. Come on Harper Collins!

Little squicked that Savywritesbooks is in here as a character indulging in internet discourse. I need more degrees of separation!