hailey

4.5✨ find my full thoughts in my latest reading vlog where i tried to predict the twists before they happened! https://youtu.be/VrIYkdfqhxg

4.5✨ full thoughts in a secret tbr video coming soon!!

almost didn't give a 5 star bc of ledger's weird ass parents but the epilogue and authors note really got me. how does miss colleen continue to wreck me every time?! 

BEST BOOK OF 2022

i wanted to give this a higher rating but i had issues with the character arcs. both of these ladies need therapy in a BAD way. i'm all for unlikable characters, but the underlying “commentary” that made these characters unlikable just felt plain mean and judgmental. it wasn't fun-unlikable, if that makes sense. it was like we were being told by the author who we should like or who was “right” morally, even though i had a visceral dislike for that character.  i did enjoy the storytelling, the campiness, the plot and the way i could see both of the main characters as different influences on modern femininity, but those aspects didn't outweigh the major flaws in the main characters' development.