I ate this book up it was so good. At this points if Ali writes it I will read it.

Did I have zero desire to play chess before? Yes. Do I kinda want to download an app on my phone now and play? Yes.

I loved the teenage angst, I loved that even tho it's single pov from the fmc you could tell how in love with her the mmc was, I loved the sibling relationships and the humour it brought, and I really loved the style of the epilogue that it was a couple of years later and was a journalist piece of the next world champs

My only issue is mainly with the narration, and that all the European accents (minus British) all sounded the exact same Eastern European when they were meant to be German, Italian

- sports romance (chess)
- YA (felt like a closed door new adult)
- Queer FMC