Positively surprised with this one. Definitely a love story, but also really focused on the main character coming to terms with his sexuality, and general drama while also having funny and interesting dialog (or monolog, like his thoughts). The story takes place at a bilingual school in Paris, the Colette, where also the other books in this series are set (as far as I know they are stand-alones otherwise). Louis, the main character, is convinced to be straight, having a beautiful girlfriend, and living his life with the rockstar attitude he adopted from his best friend. All that begins to crumble when a new student from London (Michael) shows up at school. Louis finally has to face some truths about himself. It takes a bit until the romance storyline really sets off, and the drama at the end was a bit stressful and cliché at one point, but that's all the complaints I have, and I didn't mind much. I really liked the book overall. Louis thoughts and anxiety were relatable, and even though some misunderstandings were annoying, they made sense. I also really liked the handling of the side characters when there was a lot of conflict. Often in books, there is a clear "wrong side," and once you know which one the author presents as that one, those people are irredeemably the bad ones. Here, there were issues where I was clearly on one side, but, especially later, you could also see the other side, and it wasn't all black and white. The last page in the book also put a good end to it. So yeah, pretty good book. I liked the couple and the conflict, and it was also written in a really funny tone sometimes. Had to grin a lot 😁 Maybe I'll read the other books in this series as well.

Das Buch ist echt gut geschrieben und es war sehr lustig. Anfangs jedoch mochte ich den Protagonisten und seine Freunde nicht. Sie waren mir ein wenig unsympathisch. Louis bester Freund Toni wurde mir recht schnell sympathischer, seine Freundin Lucie hat mich jedoch FAST bis zum Schluss genervt. Die Geschichte zwischen Michael und Louis ist mit viel Konflikten gestaltet aber nimmt letztendlich eine interessante Wendung.