Ophelia After All

This book was going in exactly the direction I was expecting it to for about 200 pages...until it wasn't.

I expected this to be a chill, coming-of-age bisexual realisation story where she gets the girl and has a brilliant prom. That is not what happened.
Ophelia is a great character. Her personality is very clear from the beginning and she's a very enjoyable character. Her relationships with her friends, Agatha, Sammie, and Wesley were all very entertaining and sweet, and her crush on Talia and relationship with her was also very cute. I was really not expecting anything more than a simple bisexual love story, but this book completely overted my expectations.

Ophelia does NOT get the girl!! I was kind of gutted when I read that, but to be honest, it was a lot more realistic than a lot of books I've read.
Ophelia's subsequent hanging outs with Wesley were so, so good and her going to the LGBTQ+ centre was a wonderful scene.
I really appreciated the LGBTQ+ representation in this book, as well as the very realistic depictions of friendship in a big group, with Ophelia realising she was never really friends with Lindsay, but being able to enjoy her company regardless.
Ophelia being taken to prom by Sammie and Agatha was so wholesome and adorable and this book did such a great job of demonstrating the value of friendship, and the end of the book was so utterly heartwarming. (Also, it was great to see two bisexual characters in opposite gender relationships - I feel like there's never any rep for that!)