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You Are Not Alone by Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

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Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

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All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban

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fast-paced

Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

the writing felt a little… obvious? idk how to put it but the story started with amber basically saying “omg my jock bf can’t figure out i like the school nerd!!” and the book just kept trying to cement their roles all the time in the first half of the book. we get it, this is a breakfast club thingy. move on.

there was no suspense or twists. we knew the

true target

, it’s not like the story tried to confuse us by

making everyone look a little suspicious and shitty

. it was also no surprise who put them there. like, even if you read without trying to figure it out, when they reveal it, it’s just like “yeah”.

i didn’t care about any of the characters; everytime something was presented about their life to make me feel sympathetic, i just didn’t care. even when the subjects were heavy (su*cide, bullying, addiction), they were written in a way that felt shallow.

like amber’s trauma: because her sister was cyberbullied before she k*lled herself, amber didn’t use ANY social media. obviously there must be cases similar to these in real life, but it felt like this was just for plot convenience so she wouldn’t know sasha was cyberbullying priya. and also amber gets triggered if someone sneaks up behind her because that’s what her sister did the last time they spoke. idk, everything just felt so flat.

i also feel like, since cyberbullying was a thing in this book, why tf didn’t this “revenge” on sasha involve something online? when amber was like “i did all this to teach sasha a lesson, i planned everything, blahblahblah”, i just kept thinking “girl, just post her on tiktok and call her a mean girl. that fucks things up for ppl.”

the escalation was not well done lmao i didn’t feel tensions rising. sasha started out panicking and ended that way. those who were calm stayed calm. and, by the way, we get it sasha sucks and she uses uppers! but panicking is completely expected. there was a whole dude with a broken ankle who DIDN’T panic at <b>any</b> point. did they all take xanax before this or something?

about the end: i was so frustrated seeing everyone ready to forgive amber. i love stories about “revenge” where everyone promises to keep quiet about something because the person who died sucked and the guilty one is a good person. but in this case, because this whole plot of amber’s was ridiculous and unnecessary and she wanted to play god, I DON’T GET IT.

i liked that at the end amber decided to turn herself in instead of pitying herself but it would’ve been so much better if she didn’t realize that what she did was fucked up but her friends did. if she kept trying to justify everything the same way sasha used to (which would show the influence she had on amber). nobody would turn her in but they’d not want anything to do with her anymore and only then amber would realize she need to take accountability.

anyway, this was completely underwhelming to me.

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Blu, como a cor azul (Sucesso no TikTok) by Marie-France Léger

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emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

damn i spent half the pages wanting to beat this man up

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Malibu Renasce by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Carrie Soto está de volta by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

bowe 🩷💞

Friends Like These by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

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tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

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dark reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

damn, he's dramatic, huh. R rated jughead fr

also he's all like "women are a different species from men, they make no sense, they're inherently uninteresting and difficult, blah blah blah" and then "i never pay attention to what a woman's saying" ????? THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THEM

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