I'm not sure where to start with this review. This book is filled with so many emotions that it is difficult to describe them.

This story is about two teenagers who did not have an easy childhood. One of them raised in poverty, albeit with a father who loved and supported him, and the other raised in opulence within a family that only cared about appearances and with a controlling and abusive father.

Korbin made Lyric's life at school hell, not realizing the internal damage he was causing, to the point of affecting his mental health. But then, school ended and during that summer, Korbin begins to realize that he can't go down that path, that he must begin to accept himself and his attraction to Lyric.

Lyric feels damaged, broken, but something about Korbin won't let him go and he accepts and tries to forgive him and they start a relationship. But Korbin's environment, his family and his friends take the toxicity to the maximum and manage to separate them, causing Lyric to leave town.

Years pass, and Lyric decides to visit his father and finds out about the illness of someone who was close to him, which puts him in front of Korbin again, and everything he thought he knew, everything he thought had happened. ... It was not so.

During those years, both go through internal growth, a maturity that this time allows them to meet again halfway and realize that they were always meant to be.

A good story, with the right dose of anguish and a very accurate representation of mental illness, and also the trauma that an abusive family can generate.

One thing that I really liked was that they didn't heal from one day to the next, that it wasn't looking into each other's eyes and saying oops, we love each other, we're healed! No, they struggled and suffered to get to where they are at the end of the book. It was a long and painful road, but they knew how to get to the other side of the road, with the help of those people who really loved and supported them.

I was given an advanced copy and voluntarily wrote a review.