From Twinkle, with Love

This was a quick, charming read! I loved Twinkle's passion for filmmaking, and I loved that all the friendship drama was on an equal importance to the relationship drama.

There were some minor issues that bugged me–little things like Twinkle completely loving and revering Roger Ebert but also thinking that Roger Ebert got his start on a blog? Is that a joke? Like yes sure it's hard for Kids These Days to imagine life before Online but...really? (Of course then there are points where she knows she doesn't know as much as she'd like to know and she's just faking it, eg never having seen the original Dracula, but she seems more self aware about those things than she did about the Ebert thing? Which was like literally just a throwaway line that bugged me.) Just little details like that, not make-or-break if you're just reading it for the characters or romance but enough to bug a grumpy adult such as meee. Or like a FAIRLY LARGE part of the book involves Twinkle's despair about not having a cell phone but at one point she “orders a Lyft”?? How Twinkle. How did you do that.

Also as a grown person reading this I was a little frustrated by the obvious ~secret admirer~ email thing but listen...it's cute and I'm definitely all in on Twinkle and Sahil. I appreciated Sahil as a long-time crush-haver who managed to not be a big creepy weirdo.

I also appreciated the diversity in characters, including LGBTQ pals having their own relationship drama and Twinkle's callout of her school as being only interested in diversity on MLK Day. Go off, Twinkle.