Explored some interesting themes but overall felt too short to really dive into anything. The world building felt confusing and not very thorough, and I didn’t develop an attachment to any of the characters, and certainly didn’t feel anything for the main “romance” if you can even call it that

The structure was exciting and the whole history of heartbreak concept came together for me in the end. It was real in a way that didn’t necessarily feel good. All of the sex scenes had a negative air to them. I think it was possible to interweave some feel good romantic moments in here but I didn’t get any. No surprise that Bryan Washington and Brandon Taylor had reviews on the book jacket because I got a similar off-put feeling from each of their books. I’m not typically someone that needs my characters to be likable but I was missing that here for sure. I surprisingly did like how she portrayed the early days of COVID at the end of the book. Maybe because it’s two years later now, but she really captured what it was like in the spring and summer of 2020. She effectively used the pandemic to inform her character’s experiences and showed how it affected their relationships.

Sad sad sad. Weirdly, time moved so fast and tragedy was so normal that I was never super sad when a character died.

Noa’s death was so unceremonious and the story jumped straight to a different perspective afterwards so we never really got to sit in it. I also wished we got a perspective from his children, since the story focused so much on Sunja and Hansu I thought we might follow their lineage more. Although I guess what we’re supposed to take from the story is that Isak was always Noa’s father.

I cried at the very end but never before.

Well written. Melancholy. Not sure how I feel

A+ ending for a trilogy. Wrapped everything up super well.

Bookmarked a lot of these to come back to

Boy does Tillie Walden know how to make someone feel