This was a fun book!! I enjoyed the lived-in feel of the setting (even if sometimes it was definitely an excuse for the author to gush about Wellesley), as well as how the variety of arospec and acespec experiences were shown. Even with the two protagonists, although most of their bond was able to happen because of their shared aroace label, their experiences were vastly different. (Sophie’s dealing with the expectations forced onto her as an immigrant child and how that’s made her parents doubt or deny her sexuality, Jo grew up with gay moms and in a good environment to be queer but isn’t as comfortable in her sexuality as Sophie is.)

The screenshots throughout also added a layer of immersion, the accuracy in the rep of pointless online arguments and being terminally online was very amusing.

I do, however, wish there was more development in the characters!! Jo and Sophie’s friendship doesn’t feel organic until around the latter half because a lot of the conversations they have outside of aroace-ness are summarized instead of given on-page time. I wanted to root for them earlier on!! And some of the conversations about relationships and sexuality felt juvenile. I can partially excuse this because of the target demographic and the characters barely being adults, but in other moments it felt a little too silly.

(However!! We still got a platonic version of a dramatic rainy love declaration and I was a little obsessed with that)

Still though, this was a sweet, funny read. I hope all kinds of aspec people get some value out of this. I’m only questioning tbh so I can’t really contribute(not fully aro but under that umbrella), but there were still some lovely feels to feel. So.