Fun Fact: I Love You by Gina Lynn Larsen is not the story I was expecting. I was expecting a sweet and endearing YA novel that would fill me with all the warm, lovey-dovey feelings and hope of burgeoning first love. I was expecting two teens who’ve been friends forever figuring out that they are more. I was expecting end-of-the-year, high school senior shenanigans. This story has some of that, but mostly it is a trauma/drama filled with teen angst, meanness, and utter sadness. I don’t actually know how to adequately review this book. When I saw the cover and read the synopsis I thought, “This book looks like just the sweet and endearing young love story I have been looking for. Can’t wait to see how the author executes the secret-author trope. This book is going to be fun! I hope it’s a book I can recommend to my high school students!” But I didn’t have fun, per se. I was devastated. For a good majority of the story, I was beaten up emotionally. I want to be clear. Fun Fact: I Love You is a good story, it’s just different than what I thought. It is well written, highly engaging, and seriously fast paced. I devoured this book in less than 24 hours. The main characters, Nellie and Jensen, are excellently crafted teens. I was rooting for them the whole time, and I very much loved how their relationship grew from friendship to more. I will totally recommend this book to my high school students. BUT I will make sure to inform my students of all the trigger warnings (there are many) before I allow any of them to check this book out from my class library. And I will most definitely send them home with Kleenex after they check out this book because they are going to need it abundantly. Overall, I do heartily recommend Fun Fact: I Love You. Just go into this read knowing that it tackles some really big, sad, traumatizing subjects. It is absolutely not a warm and fuzzy, lighthearted, and sweet romance. It is so much more!