aashna's reviews
577 reviews

so so good and i'm really happy that i finished even though the first 20% of the book was kind of slow. the romance between zafira and nasir was really well done and i loved the worldbuilding and plot twists!!

i was really looking forward to reading this but it fell a little short for me: the pace was uneven for me and the plot got a bit repetitive at times. but i really loved kallia and the ending was a great cliffhanger so i think i'll be reading the sequel!

super cute! i definitely needed to read something light or a contemporary and i loved this book a lot. darcy and brougham were both really great characters as well as really relatable and fleshed out. a few of the lines really Hit and i had to put my phone down to process them properly. the book tackled biphobia (internalized and otherwise) well, and i loved how much casual lgbt+ rep we got. i wish that the side characters (mainly brooke and ray) were more multidimensional but other than that i don't really have many complaints!

i read this for school and i have to say that the writing was wonderful because the way it switched from simple prose to beautiful poetry was masterful and it worked really well. the main reason my rating is lower is because i couldn't figure out what was happening a lot of the time because of the flashbacks and flashforwards and the overall structure of the novel. however, the character arcs were logical and well written, and despite there being somewhat less closure than i expected, the ending and resolution made thematic sense and were well executed.