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“She has gone so long without roots, she doesn’t know how to grow them anymore. So used to losing things, she isn’t sure how to hold them.”

“i didn’t want to live forever. i just wanted to live.” STOP IT RN

“Addie slips from English into French . . . the man softens at the mention of his daughter’s name, softens more at the sound of his native tongue, and she understands. She can speak German, Italian, Spanish, but French is different, French is bread baking in her mother’s oven, French is her father’s hands carving wood, French is Estele murmuring to her garden. French is coming home”

i’ve been struggling to really get into this book. the writing just feels like it’s trying too hard to give romcom vibes, especially with so many cliches when i’m only 8 chapters in.

i’ve been in the biggest slump this month and i’ve spent 3 weeks reading this on and off. it’s not even that i don’t like it, but it’s going into limbo for now because this slump is painful now.

screw it. soft dnf for now (or so i think) because i can’t do this rn. maybe ever, who knows? into limbo this book goes.

there is entirely too much happening for a story that does not feel this deep… like honestly this could’ve been wrapping up by now and instead i’m just barely over halfway through.

i’m trying to truck along but it’s hard out here 🫥🥱

i cannot say i’m looking forward to the father scene… i am in fact uncomfy here.

Tem has been INSUFFERABLE this whole book, but chapter 17 i actually wanna rip her head off. like either shut up and listen or just walk away babe.

WHAT

“we are going to kick ass… ooh, i’m finally nervous! can we back out?”

i love Drew she’s so real for this

AH THAT KISS

“incentive so you’ll come back a little sooner”

i’m obsessed with them

the way he got so excited to tell her about the restaurant he wants to open😭 i love him

“you can take the lead” “and you’ll follow?” “to the moon and back”

stop it rn i’m not okay

Iwan is just seeming better and better tbh i love him