Thrive

I..am very much confused? I honestly don't know whether I liked or disliked this book. There were moments I liked and disliked. Idk, I just felt really bored because this is basically just Lilo's point of view of Kiss the Sky and Hothouse Flower. I'm still very much proud of lily & lo though.. that'll never change. It definitely did take me some time to finish, and I hated that. Sooo.. I really don't know. It's gonna be left unrated because I just feel really conflicted.

rating- 3.5/5We're in Earth-616. This isn't an alternate universe.” I clutch the phone tighter, tears falling. “We're going to have our happy ending. It's just going to take us a little while to get there.”
I LOVE these characters and the way the author writes these books sm <3 lilo has my entire heart.
Kiss the sky and Hothouse flower did an incredible job at making me love rose-connor and Daisy-ryke but somehow lilo's story felt disjointed and incomplete. We were given a paragraph entailing a big event; and we're somehow supposed to pretend it's important, with no context whatsoever about how the characters feel.

(considering ryke isn't the most emotionally perceptive person i had no idea as to what lo could've been thinking)
Hothouse flower opens with lo having relapsed and the media accusations about his dad but we don't see the connection or the hows until now. this is so important because it fills in the blanks and gives us a complete picture. SO happy i didn't skip this book honestly.
Was it repetitive? yes a 100%. There were around 2-4 scenes that were almost word for word with the dialogue. but there were also things that really made me appreciate the alternate pov.

getting to see what lo thought of daisy and ryke was so important because from ryke's pov, he just seems downright hostile.

It goes beyond them together. It's that he can't be honest with me. He asks me for his complete trust, but it's becoming harder and harder when he builds walls between us.