My brain is too fogged to write a good review right now but I know I'll forget to later. I feel like this is the first story I've ever read that solidly understood what I needed to take from it. There's so much that people don't understand about chronic illness, and so much it changes about your understanding of yourself. As Priya later realizes, the symptoms, and the grief they cause, happen to you over and over, always. You have to move on with your life while knowing you'll never feel fully welcome in your own body again, and having to accept that's okay.

I think this story really reminded me that we're never as alone as we may feel, and it's still worth trying to build a life we want to live, even if it feels tentative and fragile. I really loved these characters, they felt like my friends as I was reading the story, and reminded me how healing it is to reach out and build stronger relationships with the friends and family I have in my real life, even when they don't always understand what I wish I could hear from them. Stories and their carefully chosen wordings are meant to soothe those aches for us instead.

I do agree with reviewers of color that a white author doesn't have the personal knowledge to write a character of color as a protagonist as well as they could be written. Race and disability intersect in ways white people aren't made to think about until we listen to our disabled peers of color, and in ways that O'Neal didn't elaborate on in Priya's narrative. In this way her story felt somewhat hollow, and it's what prevented me from rating the book a full five stars. 

I did like that the book was fast paced and partially written in chatroom text. That made it much easier for me to focus on and motivate myself to read. I think this is the first fictional book without pictures I've finished in the last two years. The dialogue flowed well between every character, and sounded like words real people would really say.

I think that's all I can write right now, but I'm sure I'll be thinking of this story long afterwards. It has a significance in my life now that will probably go unparalleled for some time.