Nguyet Tran

I'm going to hell. Apparently, I'm a huge hypocrite, because instead of feeling repulsed, I actually felt heart-wrenched by the love stories here. Doris is so good with words. In less than 120 pages, she made me feel torn, yearning, loved, unloved, insecure, lonely, disgusted, hopeless, self-loathing, and turbulent.

I'm going to hell. Apparently, I'm a huge hypocrite, because instead of feeling repulsed, I actually felt heart-wrenched by the love stories here. Doris is so good with words. In less than 120 pages, she made me feel torn, yearning, loved, unloved, insecure, lonely, disgusted, hopeless, self-loathing, and turbulent.

I loved the series, so I was really excited to read the book. However, even though the storyline is almost identical, the book felt like it relied too heavily on spicy scenes so much that they started to bore me. Every time I found the plot cute, the characters would just start hooking up again, and I genuinely found myself wondering why they couldn't build a platonic connection for more than 5 minutes.

In the series, the acting and directing were excellent, and I felt a real emotional connection between the characters. But the writing in the book didn't create the same depth or pull me in emotionally in the same way.

Nothing special, but the story is cute and the book doesn't advocate for toxic behaviors like many other YA books