I feel like the author added so much smut to hide the fact that she has no writing talent. The plot only got interesting at the end. If you want a good romance with riddles and games, Caraval is a much better series. This book made me want to go back to reading YA novels, at least they have proper romance and not just sexual tension.
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This was so disappointing. How can you still love someone who MURDERS your father? The author tries to justify it with the fact that her father was awful to humans but the fact that he saved her, protected her, trusted her and loved her, deserves more than getting betrayed by the only human he showed his vulnerability to. It could have been a wonderful novel about fatherly love like maleficent but nooo it had to be about falling for a shitty man who literally fell for another woman while his wife was pregnant.
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This was just brilliant. The way she portrayed having an ed and recovery and eating habits of sane girls and how being sick thin is not attractive at all (which isn't said enough). I adore these series so far. Will definitely make my daughter read these (if i have one) when she is a teenager. The changing feelings of Dan and while Dan was wonderful, but Ellie just wasn't attracted to him and how attraction actually does matter a lot and even though reading about Dan and his new gf was saddening but they made so much more sense together cuz his gf was actually very attracted to him and not ashamed at all. I love how the author adds reality without taking away the sweetness of the book. This feels like Derry Girls but make them younger. I absolutely love it.
Even though I absolutely loathe the memory loss and miscommunication trope, I really loved the book. I read this book over a span of couple of weeks as I had my exams and by the time I finished it, I felt like I had grown out of it and that made me really really sad. I had enjoyed and swooned over all her books, and I didn't want that phase to end at all. Sometimes fantasy books make you realise how bleak your reality is. Knowing that it is not real, and the world does not exist, has started to make me really upset lol. I used to read these books for escapism but I kind of want to take a break from this genre now and build my own life.