ali

wtf

i liked it.

found family is one of my favorite tropes. for the first half of the book, i was almost sure this will be a 5-star.

but i guess i quickly lost the magic as the climax started. i felt like frances has been paid dust compared the massive emotional labor that she had throughout the book. even daniel had a proper apology but frances, with all her understanding and sacrifices wasn't even given an apology for the stuff she felt responsible for even though it's the twins and their incapability to outright tell people their feelings that is the real problem.

she had spent years feeling responsible for carys. she was left to pick up the broken pieces when aled had his outburst and no one but raine had ever told her that she shouldn't feel sorry at all. i dunno, i guess being that close friends make it all okay and at least, aled ended up okay but for me, frances is still very underappreciated and i hate it.

this is so warm??? and loving??? and compassionate??

at first i thought i wouldn't like it because i've been feeling a bit too old for YA's (ewan q ba, i don't appreciate teen angst that much anymore) but there's so much love and empathy in this book that it bridged the gap that i'm struggling to get on with.

true nga na we all have these private wars within ourselves pero siguro if we're surrounded by love and understanding and soooo much patience, we'll get by eventually.

(this healed my inner teenager cguroh,,, keri niu yon)

2.5 ⭐

i'm too sleepy to process everything

A good read overall. Pretty short and a good book to beat your reading slump.