4.5
adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Fell off the reviewing wagon in the last month or so but I would like a record of my thoughts for all my 2023 books, however brief, so I'm doing my best!

This is one of those books that make my Scribd subscription worth it - unique, weird, poignant, and nigh-on impossible to get hold of here without breaking the bank. It's a whole rollercoaster journey, following the MC from their childhood where they never quite feel at ease in their own skin, solving supernatural crimes with friends (I was obsessed with these little vignettes of the cases, and hoped more would be included in the book, but alas it wasn't to be). Then it moves on to a queer coming of age, focusing on those intense, sometimes toxic relationships between teen girls. And then the MC begins to suffer more with their disordered eating and is institutionalised, wherein begins the weirdest and best part of the book. 

I've truly never read anything like this, a unique exploration of gender, coming-into-being, eating disorders, friendship, queerness, weirdness. Would highly recommend if you like your weird ass little books.

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