Absolutely gripping. Katie Henry brings her teen protagonists to life so vividly. I finished it in 24 hours. Representation includes lesbian, bi, generalised anxiety disorder, Mormon, and amongst the minor characters also Jewish and Samoan.
I loved so much about this! It was a great look on many,many things: faith, religion in general, being bi and being Mormon, mental health, family and so on and so on. Many of these things are way outside my own experience, especially the religious aspects. I appreciated those themes so much, they were incredibly well done and differentiated. In addition to that did I love all the social commentary provided about everything. There are many, many more things I loved, like Alice and her family with her having anxiety disorder since very early childhood. That entire dynamic was sometimes very hard to read but developed beautifully. My only nitpick is that I expected one relationship to develop differently, because of how this was pitched to me and how I interpreted the stuff that was happening, but that obviously isn't a big critique.