cozy_little_booknook's reviews
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will pick back up at a later date

just not in the mood for it right now; will pick it back up soon. 

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press, NetGalley, and Stacy Willingham for the opportunity to review a digital ARC of this book. What a fun ride. 

Margot is swimming in grief; her best friend died under mysterious circumstances 3 weeks after their high school graduation. She’s spent her entire first year of college merely surviving, looking at the fun from afar. Taking special interest in three girls on her hall: Nicole, Sloane, and the magnetic Lucy Sharpe. 

So when, at the end of the school year, Lucy asks Margot to room with the three of them for the next school year, Margot jumps at the chance to start truly living again. What happens from there is a series of twists and turns that end up becoming fatal. 

Overall, this was a really fun read. I’m personally drawn to stories about female friendship, especially when they turn sour, so this book was right up my alley. This is also my first Stacy Willingham book and it made me want to move her other titles up on my TBR shelf. There were multiple twists that I genuinely didn’t see coming. Some of which were brilliant additions and others seemed to have been thrown in order to wrap up the ending. With that being said, if you’re a thriller lover this book is not to be missed. 

I struggle to explain the why of this book (i.e. why write this), but at the same time I totally know the why. At this point, Glossier and Emily Weiss seem like an incomplete story, but at the same time the rise and plateau of Emily and her brand(s) are a study into the 2010s, our priorities of the time and where they are now, the general trends, and the era of Millennials becoming the bosses our mothers and grandmothers told us we were and could always become. 

Additionally, the narrator of the audiobook did an absolutely fantastic job. I will look out for other books she narrates in the future.

This is what happens because cis, het, white people don't experience enough oppression.

Here's the thing: it had some good things to say about life, love, mental illness, and abuse. I definitely highlighted a number of passages that spoke to me, and clearly this book is beloved by many. HOWEVER: through this book I've learned that I don't like the miscommunication trope AT ALL. If that's something that even remotely bothers you, I'd say skip it.