Please don't hate me I'm fragile :(

“He’s too perfect. Alex wants to poke it.”

— overall thoughts: 2.0 —
For a book trying to break stereotypes, this sure had a lot of stereotypical characters.

So... I didn’t HATE this book. In fact, it made me giddy the first 25% and probably the last 2 sentences of the book.

But I think the main reason for my rating is probably that this book was overhyped for me and it just did not reach my high expectations.

I loved the premise of the story which was what got me so excited to read it in the first place but the characters started to feel off at some point. It felt like it was trying too hard and it just wasn’t selling it to me for the most part. The idea seemed better than the story itself.

I get the author was trying to tackle these so many different societal topics and issues. It’s not the idea or the plot itself I’m against but the execution. Even then, the flow of the story was just not there, scenes just started out of nowhere that I had to re read quite a few times to understand what just happened.

Representation. Is. Good!!! But not when it’s forced into every character and “plot line” out of nowhere.

There were parts that I actually liked but there were more parts that I couldn’t handle as well. I thought the OTP was cute at first but they just did not have the enemies to lovers trope that I came here to read. I expected most of the story to overcome the line between enemies and lovers but... it did not. There scenes that felt like they were too good to be true and just did not have the proper build up.

Nevertheless, I know a lot of people enjoyed this book and many still might. But I was definitely disappointed ;( especially considering the hype surrounding this book and that it was probably in my feed 100 times before I picked it up.