I feel like a cynical twenty-something who has lost touch with her teenage self saying this, but my biggest beef with this book is that the characters just didn’t feel like high schoolers to me at ALL. Maybe I’m spoiled because we have so many great examples of accurate high school representation in the media these days (Sex Education, literally everything Alice Oseman has ever created), that I forget what it’s usually like. And when I first read this book at fifteen (in London, btw) the book definitely resonated with me. So it’s probably just me being bitter and anxious because I’m no longer a whimsical teenage girl. Apart from this I have to say, that some parts felt really fabricated and cringey to me and the novel is very much a product of its time, so I can’t really complain about the cheuginess of it all, yet it was a little irritating to me.

Starting out, I was really into this book. I loved the way it began and thought I was in for a whole night of mischief and that would be the whole book but oh boy was I wrong. This novel starts out with this big night, but then it takes place over I think the next couple weeks? It's like the last week or couple weeks of school I can't remember.  What I really loved about this story was the love story between Kate and Violet. It was beautiful and real and made me come back to this audio book over and over. I could relate to Kate a lot, cause still remember how lost and anxious I felt when school got to en end and it came to choosing university and basically the life you wanna lead. I also related to her fear of meeting Violet after imagining her for so long. It's hard to meet someone real, when you had this idea of the relationship in your head for so long. And basically there are way too little gay female stories in novels so this was refreshing especially in its happiness.  The Mark part was really nice and intriguing in the beginning, but after like the first half, I just started to despise Ryan so much and that threw me of a lot. He did loads of things, a good friend wouldn't and never once apologised for it and that just made me so mad. But anyway, I would recommend checking this story out if you want some good and positive wlw content. Everything is very well written and there is loads of representation in this story. Definitely one of the most diverse reads I ever encountered. Sadly it fell flat in other parts.