Rita

The last few chapters really made me want to give this 4 stars. Kudos to Yarros for going there! But I had to take half a star off for the absolute slog the middle was. So much repetitive nonsense where Ella is a hypocritical liar who hates liars and Beckett wrongly blames himself for everything so much he actually messes things up. Everything was a lot better when the romance was the romance and the drama was the drama. When the drama is the romance, things get tired and I take off points. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would halfway through!

Super fun rom-com that owns the distinction of being the first book in years that I've read cover to cover in one day.

Perfectly moody, if a little slow to start. I liked how well defined each timeline was and how the tone was different for all three.

Only deducted a star for the weird mico-anachronisms in the 1998 timeline that kept taking me out of the story and spoilers: the fact that the cat dies.

I wanted to like this far more than I did, but alas. I roll my head at the weird prose, all the characters in this book and their horrible decisions, and cheap unearned twists.