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This book was so goddamn cute. I love stories about sibling bonds anyway so this was right up my ally. This was also unexpectedly funny in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way. I loved how the “romance” was not even a romance, but friendship. That made it so much better. And I need that Irish book lady in my life PRONTO. This also had some really tender moments which I lived for. Overall, a good time through and through.??

I already know that this is going to become one of my comfort reads. I am completely enamoured by this book.??
It is happy and?? hopeful and exactly what I needed.??
The way I loved ALL the characters??? Except for the asshole ones, of course. It was funny and clich??d in the best way.??
The romance made me swoon at multiple intervals and have I mentioned how amazing this cast of characters is??? Everyone from the main characters to the side characters rock.
We have so much representation??? MY HEART IS SOARINGGGG.??
HE POLITICAL ESCAPISM HEALED MY HEART BTW & FILLED IT WITH HOPE ????
All the relationships in this book were so precious?????
I don't know how to put into words my love for this book & everything that it did. JUST FUCKING READ IT.??

Taylor Jenkins Reid is a hit or miss author for me but this one was a fucking hit. I loved it so much. I loved all the female characters, as is to be expected, and scoffed at all the men, as is realistic.??
I fell in love with June and Nina and Kit and Casey and even Tarine (and Ricky, I love him). I wanted to castrate Mick Riva. I was rolling my eyes at Jay and Hud.??
I'm not usually a big fan of flashbacks but TJR does it so incredibly well.??
June, and especially Nina, are some of the best characters I've ever had the pleasure of reading about. The love I feel for these characters is inexplicable.
The family dynamics in this book are truly spectacular. I HAVE NO WORDS AAAHHHH.??
That is not to say that I liked everything about it. The first half of this book was so much better than the second one what with having to read about random, unimportant characters in the latter.??
And, as much as I felt for these characters, this book could not make me cry. Also it made me hate men even more than I usually do.??
But, at the end of the day, this is still a very well done and complex story that I enjoyed to great extents. Would totally recommend to everyone!??

what i liked
- how funny this was, i mean at the core of it this is not a light-hearted book but some parts were hilarious
- badass women!!! being badass!!! doing hot girl shit!!!
- what a fucking page turner
- i highlighted the living hell out of this book

what i didn't like
- the cheating & how everyone was cool with it
- how anticlimactic this really was, like i was expecting some epic shit and then it came down to it & i was like ''that's it? what even was the point of so much build-up then?''
- this book was just everyone being a horrible person for 300 pages straight
- killing camila off so that billy & daisy could be together
- wtf was that ‘‘twist''?!

bottom line: was this as good as the seven husbands of evelyn hugo? lol, clearly not

Wow. That was so weird, I loved it. Unlike anything I've ever read before.
I enjoyed April's character and wanted to scream at her all the same. She did some really shitty things like thirsting over other people when she already had a girlfriend (even though she never treated Maya like one). She is the epitome of an unlikable protagonist.
This made some great observations on humanity and internet culture. The social commentary was one of the best parts of this book for me.??
This book was incredibly funny too. It made me laugh out loud several times. I also loved how intricately woven the plot was. Hank Green is a genius.
While I wasn't expecting that ending, it did leave me kind of unsatisfied with the few answers that we got. I understand that there will probably be more of that in the sequel, but that makes this book seem like all build up.

??This has to be my least favorite Kara Thomas book. But let's start with the good parts.
This is a very well written book. The writing drew me in & didn't let me go until the very end. Like all of Kara Thomas' books, this was compulsively readable. And for a thriller, this was pretty thrilling. I actually felt anxious for the characters at many points during this book.
I also really liked how complex all the characters were!
They were not one-dimensional at all & I really appreciated that. I do love me some morally grey badasses! Though I have to add, some of the characters (that I assume we were supposed to care about) were just plain assholes.
Now on to the negatives. Hmmm, where to start.
For a mystery, I don't think the mystery was very good at all.
I had so many unanswered questions by the end of this book. Like why did Jack say “I'm sorry” if he was innocent? Also, all the deaths didn't even turn out to be related at the end?! There weren't five murders, just three (plus a hit and run) unlike what the book would like you to believe.??
I felt like this entire book, we weren't getting anywhere at all. Like Monica would come across an oh-so-shocking clue and then we would somehow be back to square one? It was a lot of beating around the bush.??
Most of the discoveries that Monica made weren't even relevant until the end? It was like KT was trying to fill up pages with vaguely “thrilling” shit until she reached the desired page count. There was like ~one~ measly twist that actually shocked me.??
The ending was very weak and the whole thing just felt lazy. It was sloppy at best. The ending was also very open which I'm not sure I liked. There was no real closure when it desperately needed one.??
Anyway, I've read so much better from this author.??
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