Pen Pal

Pet names really give me the ick. But the story was very unexpected with solid twists and lots of intense spice. I really didn't like the mental illness rep in this. It was an unnecessary element and the behavior that resulted from it could have happened for other reasons. There is already so much stigma around mental illness, authors really need to not weaponize it when there can be other ways to achieve your character arcs. Be sure to check the content warnings before you dive into this.

OH MY GOD. This may be my favorite book of the year. I was not expecting that. This book was absolutely incredible, I could not get enough of it. I may just have a book hangover from this. I don't know how anything else I'll read this year will compare to this. I really enjoyed working kind of backwards if that makes sense to get to what happened. I was not expecting any of it, I had my hunches but they were blown away and completely wrong. I've never been so wrong before and I love that I wasn't able to figure out the plot twists in this book.