They shared one kiss and met a couple of times and that's all it takes to write the next masterpiece of world literature?? Social commentary on life and human decency and survival? 🤡 The guy was seventeen and he had already managed to write two novels that shook the foundations of the USA. Couldn't be me.

While reading the second half of the book, I kept thinking that this girl must have taken a few classes from the internet guru on how to bring raging alcoholics and their decadent sons out of depression. asked her personal questions that were clearly none of his business right after claiming that he had no romantic or platonic interest in her,

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This is my second time reading something by this author and I was pleasantly surprised to find out this is her signature writing style and not a fortuitous event. That ‘twist’ of Terry actually stealing parts of his book ‘The Imperfections’ from his son Kellan was the stupidest thing I’ve read.. I called it from the beginning, but hoped that it wouldn’t be true. That didn’t even make sense, Kellan adored his father for writing The Imperfections and how did he not see that his father plagiarized HIS work and called it his own? Initially, I wondered whether it was the chaotic emergence of sexual innuendos in the most inappropriate settings to be blamed for leaving me emotionless and detached from the story's multiple tragedies. But then I realized that even if the author didn't sprinkle scenes of sexual character all over the most intense plot points, the story still wouldn't have touched the strings of my heart. Something was definitely missing in the writing; What I liked most about this story though, is that every character no matter how unlikable or repellant was redeemed. They were shown as humans, imperfect and struggling like pretty much all of us. Kellan watched me in amusement, producing another muffin from his bag. He threw it at me like I was a feral animal he needed to feed through bars.

the ob-gyn finger bang scene was so cringy and unnecessary - it was not sexy like the author intended it to be bc i literally cringed so hard and died from second hand embarrassment.. honestly that’s a whole lawsuit right there lmaoo, absolutely not!! 😶So she gathered plummeting to death was the best way to go. Instead of finding an empty roof she saw a boy who had already come to the same conclusion. Kellan Marchetti was a stranger she had found a piece of herself in: Two suicidal teens, troublesome sibling relationships, outcasts, painful/traumatic pasts. I have to admit that I'm one of those readers who has to read the blurb of every book that I look at to determine if it’s worth it. Friends to lovers? I’m there. Heartache and Angst? Bring me all the wine. Forbidden romance? Just take my money. But there was something different about this book when I started reading the blurb for it and I realized that it was a gut feeling telling me that I NEEDED to read this story. And you know what? I paid attention and did it. Twenty four hours later... and I’m still thinking about it.