This is maybe a 3.5 from me but I'm rounding up. It was a little slow to start and a little draggy throughout but some of that was kind of the charm of this look at the first year of college?

I think it's more NA than YA, but it's great to have more #ownvoices realistic contemporary stuff out there, and it confronts microaggressions and class-based struggles in an organic way that

I want to say also that I was confused by the premise/tagline because I was like "um this isn't how emergency contacts work" but it's more of a jokey thing and not like, literal emergency contacts on paperwork. FOR THE RECORD.

lol a lot of these GR reviews are like "Penny's such a judgmental bitch I hate her" and I'm like "Penny was really relatable" so uh...that's fine