Iara

I overall enjoyed the book, but some stuff wasn't needed. And with this I mean the pirates. They add nothing to the story. And I mean /nothing/. The story would have been the same without them there. Less sex scenes and romance, but that's it. They didn't need to be there. They didn't help in the resolution of the story at all. Iwish they had not been added tbh.

I also have to say, as a bisexual girl myself, that as much as I appreciated the calling out of the sexualization we suffer, I did not appreciate the backtracking on Sosie. Being hesitant to be in a relationship could have happened in any of the idk how many f/m ships in the book, but it had to be the maybe-bi character that's not sure? I would have preferred it if it had not been teased at just to be taken back.

And before someone says it, I know questioning people exist, but having the supposed to be bi character be the one hurting the lesbian because maybe they're actually straight is a Bad Trope.

Those were really my two biggest problems with the book. I do also feel like the commercial breaks were fun at first but boring as the chapters went by.

Just by how long it took me to read this book we can guess how much I liked it. I feel like I finished the book equivalent of one of those tumblr posts romantizising mental illness and excusing people's horrible behavior because they're sick.

What's sad is I thought I was going to love this book. How wrong was I?

Honestly, it's not 5 stars because of that one scene. You know the one. The football field one. I hated that scene.

I also think they got together way too fast? As in, we have Nick sad af and drinking and idk just feeling terrible and suddenly he's... dating Taylor so that Leah and Abby don't feel bad about dating, I guess. I think I would have loved the book more had it been set on their first year of college and having Abby break up with Nick because distance and their friendship growing (instead of making up that they were friends before???) and then evolving into romance.

Either way, I really liked Leah with all her faults and f ups. I wish we had gotten to see more of Abby and I would love to get a book from her POV. Also HOW CUTE ARE SIMON AND BRAM????

This whole book was meh. I found the characters bland and the plot boring. I expected more from a book so hyped, specially for its characters, than  rich snobby kids running around getting drunk and high while thinking they're the smartest people in the room. I feel like it was way too long. The very little that happens could have happened in 200 pages less. And I was also disappointed the professor wasn't in it more, just because of the blurb. Don't go in thinking he appears much because he doesn't.