nico

4.2 ★

i'm giving this roughly the same rating as the first one, but i might change the other one to be higher. this was so enjoyable and i might've started reading this today at 2am and went until 5am, slept and got back to it during the afternoon; i just couldn't put it down. cat sebastian's character writing is just so good, i love them all. and her writing in general is amazing; after only reading two of her books consider me a fan of hers already.

i actually got emotional a couple of times while reading this, and thinking about the queer experience, especially in the past and i'm really glad i read both of these books

3.0 ★

not quite the plot i was expecting, and it all happens throughout a very small amount of time, but it was fine. the interactive bit didn't really work for me, cause my kobo didn't take me to the actual parts, so i had to read everything out of order and without really choosing...

lovedd apple and frankie being jealous of raven and draculaura, those are my sapphics !!

4.2 ★

i found out i downloaded the ebook a few weeks ago at like 3am, so that explains why i couldn't remember where i got it, but i'm glad i did! it was cute and it had its own uniqueness, which was great. i've seen some reviews about this book, and most weren't very positive, but i have to disagree; i enjoyed this book a lot, and it was so easy to read! i can understand some of the points, but nonetheless i think this book was quite good

3.9 ★

i really liked this book, could barely even put it down. it was nothing like i was expecting, and i enjoyed that! the characters were all very well written and even though i was only thinking of reading this book, i am now compelled to read the rest of this series

4.25 ★

honestly, i was really enjoying this but i found the last quarter of the book to be a bit disappointing. i still liked it a lot, i was just expecting something so very different.

spoilers i guess, but joar being alive felt more like an "unexpected twist" that no one would guess, rather than a good reveal. he is definitely one of my favorite characters and i love that he didn't die, but for the sake of the story it feels poor. (also when we find out joar and ali kissed i was thrown back, cause i genuinely thought joar and the artist were actually in love fr. joar and ali felt meh in comparison)

also i don't know if it was me who got it wrong, but i was almost certain ted had been stabbed once BEFORE the school incident. the way it was written, it felt like they were hinting at a first injury before his student stabbed him and i kept expecting it to be related to that supposed "dreadful ending of the summer".

i can understand that the whole point was for us to think both joar and ali had died, and joar would definitely die THAT summer and that's what changed for everyone; and then it's revealed that it wasn't quite like that. but we spent so much time being led towards that direction, that when you find out that's not what happened, it ruined the magic for me. i would rather have had a heartbreaking and tragic end for that summer, because then it would feel consistent with the rest of the book.

man... i don't know, i still loved this, but. i guess i was expecting something different

4.5 ★

holy shit. no words to describe this book. so much happened and yet there's still so much to come.