Danjal Jannik Tindholm

Achingly beautiful and well-written.
The language is simple, yet still evokes emotions and vivid, mental images.
The young longing, and the fear of not being able to live authentically is spot-on.
Held it together for most of the book, but the last few pages had me bawling.

1½ stars because there were a few times I thought, NOW it's getting good, but it never amounted to anything, so since the whole story was annoyingly bad, I'm rounding it down.
No more Jo Nesbø for me.

3½, rounded up to 4.

This was fine, even good in places, but nowhere as good as the first one.

I was hesitant to read this, because, even if I was frustrated with the ending of What If It's Us, I thought it was good ‘cause slight spoiler happy endings doesn't necessarily mean the characters have to end up with a specific person. It's okay to have a good life without having a partner.

I know the characters are teens, though older teens than in WIIU, but there was just too much unnecessary drama - you know the kind, 30 seconds of communication would have cleared a lot up.

It seemed like the authors wouldn't let any of the characters be left behind, so in the last 50 pages or so, EVERYTHING is tied up nicely, they all get their happy endings, yada yada. I don't mind a happy ending, but it's just too cutesy when done like this.

2½ stars.
Sorry to say that it dragged on at times, without any hint to as to where it might be going. I like surprises as much as the next guy, but I also like to play/guess along.
The extra ½ star is because it started to pick up at about 3/4 through.

Started out good but at the halfway point it started to drag on and become more silly.