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I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
4.0
emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Casey McQuiston has written three very different stories and all of them are amazing. This is no different and also I'm beginning to suspect that I like ya fiction better than YA fantasy.
 (Possible reasons include that I am far enough away from my own young adult years that simply the POV is enough defamiliarization to catch my interest or that I am pickier about fiction and only read authors I already know and trust whereas I am more adventurous when it comes to YA or that the plots are better. No idea.)

This book is so good and it is so careful with its characters to give them space not just to be, but to become and recognizes how much of adolescence is about becoming rather than figuring out what you actually need or want to be. Also the story itself was EXTREMELY satisfying in all the right ways.