I wanted to love this book, I really did. Unfortunately though when I finished it I just felt...disappointed. It touched on some great topics: race, adoption, first love, abandonment, issues surrounding racial identities and the concept of white people saying they “don’t see color” and how that feels/sounds to POCs, but that’s all this book and the author did....TOUCH on those topics. I was in no way expecting a happy ending or picket fence, but everything just felt half done and pushed to the side for something else. Would’ve loved to dig deeper into the story and see how Alex actually addressed some of the things she was going through. It honestly just felt unfinished.