Oooh, this was so fun!! This is one of those books where you catch yourself smiling when reading. It's such a quick and light read, I read the last 75% in one day, while also having time for my visiting grandmother. I just didn't want to put this book down with every free time I had. It was fun and sweet and aaaagh I loved it!

I was a little scared at first. Becky's book are always a hit or miss for me. Some I absolutely ADORED, and some I didn't enjoy. There isn't really an in between. And I'm so, so, so glad that this one falls under the 'absolutely ADORED' category.

I really liked almost all the characters. The only one I didn't love was Anderson, but in the end I did like him more. I just hated how he acted towards Kate sometimes. Even though you later start to understand why, it still made me a little angry and frustrated.

And Noah. Oh, Noah. Usually with stand alone books I don't get attached to characters or ships, I need two or more books for that. Well, this is definitely an exception. I am now madly in love with Noah. And him and Kate are definitely a new favorite ship of mine!!

This book also made me a little sad, I wish my high school experience was like this. In my country we don't have after school classes, sports teams and games, theater stuff. Oh how I would've loved working backstage on a musical! (It is weird to talk in past tense about high school when I only graduated 2 weeks ago)

Another thing I loved was that this mostly focused on friendships and not on romance. Don't get me wrong, I love me some good romance, but romance isn't the only thing worth writing about. Unlike many other people, I don't believe romantic relationships are that important in life. Friendships are, and I hope to one day find friendships just as amazing as the ones in this book. Ones that will last forever, even with many changes in life. But not just the friendships, the relationship between Kate and her brother were also amazing to read about and made me wish I had a sibling.

What was also very relatable, was that Kate's parents were divorced. My parents got divorced when I was 10 years old, so I know all about your life being split in two. Though my parents lived further apart, so the distance was even worse. I don't think I've come across a main character having divorced parents before. It's usually just a main character with one parent while the other doesn't get mentioned or passed away, or the main character has two parents who are still together. But divorced parents, even though it's really common nowadays, especially for a lot of teens, is not as common in YA books. It needs to be more common. A book like this, where it's casually mentioned, and you see what it's like but also that it doesn't totally ruin your life completely, is something that could've helped me when my parents got divorced. Because I had never seen it before, none of my friends had divorced parents, and in books, shows and movies the parents were all together.

Not that I think any authors would read this, but you know, just in case, if you're writing or planning on writing a YA book, PLEASE include a character with divorced parents. It's nice to finally relate to a character about that in that situation.

And aside from all of that, the author also included a lot of representation. Which is classic Becky Albertalli, all her books include representation. And every time it makes me smile.

Alright, I think this is long enough.

"It's the most underrated sentence on earth. 'I know exactly what you mean'. Translation: no, you're not weird. Even your weird stuff ins't weird. You make sense.'

TL;DR

+ Kate and Noah are now one of my new favorite bookish ships
+ This was so fun and easy and quick and cute and sweet and ok you get what I mean
+ I didn't wat to put this away
+ So much representation
+ Also THANK YOU Becky for writing a main character with divorced parents
+ The characters were all likable. The only character I didn't really like, I did like in the end.
+ This focuses more on friendships, which is so important
+ Yet the romance is also a good part of the story
+ I wish my high school experience was like this