I've finally read my first Patrick Ness book!! After this one, I'm so excited to read the rest of his books.

It's a pretty plotless book following one day in the protagonist, Adam's, life. It's more interesting than it sounds, I swear. It's about the different relationships in his life (his best friend, his boyfriend, his ex and his family mainly), the way these relationships change over the course of the day and how this changes him.

The diversity in this book is pretty great too. In terms of sexuality, Adam is gay, Angela's sexuality is fluid, Linus is gay, and there are other side lgbt+ characters. In terms of race, Angela is Korean, Karen and Renee are black, Enzo is latino, and there are other side poc.

The reason this is 4 stars and not 5 is because of the secondary plot which is about the ghost of a girl who was recently murdered. I'm not going to lie, about halfway through I stopped reading whenever this plot showed up. It didn't affect my enjoyment that much I just didn't think it was overly necessary or had enough correlation to Adam's storyline to justify it's presence.

Something that no one is mentioning that I think everyone should know before reading this is that there is a scene in which Adam's boss comes onto him and implies that Adam needs to have sex with him in order to keep his job. The scene is pretty short, but it is discussed multiple times after. One of these discussions involves someone accusing Adam of leading on his boss. Personally I was unaffected and it didn't lessen my enjoyment, but I think people should know this before they read it.