I do so love a messy queer love triangle. The Grease vibes are real with this summer-rom-com and I am so here for it. I picked this up thanks to some bookstagram friends who had suggested it and I am so glad I did. This book was SO MUCH FUN. It is full of pining, teen angst, sass, self-understanding and discovery, and questioning the rules, and so many teen FEELINGS. It was a super quick, fun, cute YA-rom-com that I would highly recommend checking out as a cute summer-time read.

I can't remember the last time I disliked a character as much as I dislike Melina. It was to the point that I just couldn't stand her so much and she experienced no growth that I just gave up and DNF'd.

I could go on forever about why I dislike Melina and find her to be a horrible character, but here is a quick summary:
1. Melina is the definition of the worst friend.
2,. She only sees other girls (her friends included) as competition for the affections of the boy that she likes. Which just feeds for women on women hate, and I do not support that.
3. She also seems to hate all her friends (she made a hate list which featured a few of them) and ignores them except when she needs something from them. Again, back to the definition of worst friend.
4. This quote sums it up pretty well - “I want him to be my friend, my close friend who will help me with work, listen to my problems, accept all decisions I make and never ask for anything in return… If, at one point in time, I decide that I do need something from him, I would be offended if he did not oblige.”
5. Melina is also incredibly judgmental. She even says she should not judge people on the basis of their looks but constantly contradicts herself by being one of the most judgmental characters I've ever seen.. For example, Miranda is pretty so she is a threat, and Sean is good looking so he is the only man for her.
6. The whole "fatphobia" thing is disgusting. All bodies and women are beautiful. The shaming is disgraceful..

On top of an atrocious main character, the potential student-teacher relationship, a lot of girl on girl hate, and a lot of people cheating on each other make this book a 0.5/5 star read. Would NOT recommend, to anyone, in any circumstance, ever.

Cute story, I loved the aspect of it taking place over a decade. Also, February 4th is my sister in law's birthday so it made me laugh. Full review to come on my blog but all in all, I would recommend. I really enjoyed this quick, fun, heart warming rom-com.

This story broke my heart, but I adored every page. This book is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. I loved the relationship between Marin and Sadie and the sister and the rest of the characters felt as real to me as my own family. Libby Hubscher is incredible. I think that calling this a romance, while there is a wonderful romance, confines this novel to a box it should not be in. It is so very much more. It’s about love, loss, adventure, self-discovery and self-acceptance. It was everything I needed and so so much more. Full review to come on my blog soon.

I went into this book thinking this would be a fantasy novel, and fully expected it to be fantasy oriented and boy was I wrong. The cover looks very fantasy and so the premise sounded majorly fantasy, so you can imagine I was incredibly thrown off by the massive Science Fiction elements in this book. I'm not the biggest sci-fi reader, however I am definitely open to other genres, I just didn't feel these two meshed together all that well..

With the multiple points of view, which in many other books didn't bother me, I found jarring. It was slightly hard to follow to jump from a "normal" life on Earth to an alien perspective on another planet. That being said, I think this book would've done well with just one or two points of view instead of four.

At the beginning of the book, you are completely thrust into this Sci-Fi/Contemporary world without any explanation. I think that was the book's biggest fault. It didn't hook me, it just left me confused.

The idea behind this novel was good, just poorly executed and didn't draw me in.