I got a print ARC and used up one whole, brand new sharpie highlighter on it and made so many hearts. And who better to help her than the grumpy older brother of the very same high school crush whose name is all over this friend fic in puffy sparkle pen? These are literally just my personal feelings as an individual who has experienced life in a particular sort of way and responds to books in ways that inevitably shaped by that. Like in Luck of the Draw where Zoe and Aidan bang in a shower they have explicitly described as gross on several previous occasions and, let’s be real, shower sex is bobbins even when the shower isn’t gross, or Love Lettering, where the heroine has had issues, in the past, with reaching orgasm through PIV but the hero hammers it straight home.

So here's where I start to fall apart and lose coherence, because I kind of cannot believe how well this book does both of those things.

However, it turns out her parents had forgotten to tell Georgie that they were letting Levi Fanning stay at the house for two weeks. Then Georgie comes across a forgotten artifact-a ‘friendfic’ diary she wrote as a teenager, filled with possibilities she once imagined. Thankfully, there are some redeeming qualities: Once everyone starts actually talking with each other, things start making some sense at least.

To pick a point in your life where things went down one path, and imagine what it would be like if you took another. It's lyrical and engrossing, a novel that possesses all the colors, idiosyncrasies, and range of the alphabet.When Georgie arrives at her parent’s house, she meets an unexpected roommate, Levi Fanning, older brother to her high school crush, Evan Fanning. As Levi helps Georgie with this wishlist of sorts, they each have to let go of their difficult pasts and figure out what feels authentic to them in the present. Readers shouldn’t expect a rom-com (there are few laughs here), but the smooth, vivid prose makes it easy to invest in the protagonists’ well-rendered character growth.