I really loved this book. Sure, it sometimes felt like people were acting in bizarre ways that no one would act (mostly in the first half of the book). But the story was fun and drew me along, the emotions were real, and the romance was beautiful. I would happily read it again.

Some of the stuff around fear and phobias was a bit too close to home and wasn’t written in a way that I personally was able to enjoy, which is sad because I liked the characters and would have loved to follow their relationship.

Wow this is amazing and perfect

Wow I love these two so much I would die for them

Compared to the epic and brilliant The Brutal Truth, this feels much more traditional. Also, it felt like it was treading water for a while in the middle (I love a slow burn but literally nothing was happening). But I still really liked this. Their relationship is really sweet. Have already started listening to the sequel!

Was this book written especially for me? It’s basically a Mean Girls fanfic with a whole bunch of musical theatre references, especially Phantom. I’m never going to be able to listen to Think of Me without crying, thinking about this book.

With this and Honor Society, 2022 was a great year for stories about academic rivals pulling elaborate Machiavellian plans to sabotage eachother, and also staging a musical.

The only downside is that Chloe is such an awful person for so much of the book that it was really hard to like her. Even though she improved at the end, it was still like, how did Shara forgive her for some of that???

Didn’t quite hit the heights of the previous two entries in this series, but pretty darn good!