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emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
3.5
I was curious about this book but didn’t know what it was about. I just knew that the author was going to be at Sweetgrass. She has a special edition of this book that will be at Sweetgrass, and it’s gorgeous, but I didn’t want to buy it without reading it first to know if it was something I’d like to reread. Looking back, I think going blind is the best way to go because I couldn’t stop trying to figure things out the whole time I thought. Ari’s story was going to end one way. Still, the next, I thought we were shifting into something completely different. Then, finally, I’d go back to thinking that her story was moving back to the original plan. It was crazy, but it is a very emotional story. Ari, her twin brother, and their three best friends are starting college. At the beginning of this book, something happens during their last big party before school starts, and Ari withdraws from everything. So, for the majority of the book, we see her struggling with what happened, coming to terms with it, and eventually moving on. But of course, things can’t just end happily and efficiently; we have to have some more turmoil, which was just wild. I enjoyed the book overall, but I struggled hard at the beginning because I felt I was missing something. We meet a ton of people at the beginning of this book, and it just kept feeling like I should’ve known who these people are, but this book is a standalone, so I don’t know where they come from. So, I think I personally just missed a book somewhere. Although I enjoyed this book overall, I don’t see myself rereading it, so I’m not going to buy the beautiful edition because I need to be a little pickier about which books, I believe, since there will be so many people there.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Miscarriage, Medical content, Car accident, and Death of parent
Minor: Sexual content and Abandonment
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