Really interesting story and well written!

Beautiful and emotional

It’s the first fun book I’ve read in a while (law students have little time for fun) and so I definitely over read and did so too quickly at first.

The book is well paced, making you care about the characters and giving them their own place. It does get awkwardly intimate in Simon’s story (and I did happen to take a break after Klara’s story) but I think overall it went well.

I was crying at points so bring tissues!

Finished in the train journey from London to Edinburgh, still reading super quickly so I might need to process and reevaluate my true score. (Review is also stream of consciousness)

Liked: great, emotional, good at discussing pervasive and intrusive thoughts and the affect that has on a person, interesting in that the arc was of personal development and not a treasure hunt

Disliked: yet again, the main character is a damaged female who isn’t glorifying her damage but in a way through the book she is damaged

Liked: a romantic relationship wasn’t the solution, money was a focus but wasn’t, interesting questions about identity, realistic resolution that still fulfills

Thoughts after reading other reviews: actually thought the philosophical musings here were more believable for their age than in TFIOS