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A review by daddiizz_gurl
Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
“We were perfect for each other. Until we met.”
⭐️: 10/10 🌶️: 7/10 💧: 8/10
There was so much to unpack in this book. The need for acceptance and visibility at any cost. At all cost.
Ryen is THAT girl. Smart, beautiful, popular, cheerleader. Shallow. She has the baseball captain chasing her heels, a team of similarly beautiful but shallow girls in flocks and feigned respect over the school she rules with snotty remarks and teasing smiles. But she’s not her. She’s not real. She can’t be. Not with them. Because if anyone knows her— the real her— they wouldn’t like her anymore.
But someone knows though. A boy from Thunder Bay that she’s been pouring her words out to over black pages freely for seven years. He knows. But not everything. Because if he knew everything too, he wouldn’t like her as much he does now.
Misha. The rebellious guitarist, black sheep, grandson of Senator Grayson. Broken. One night of chance sends him into a tumultuous spiral into a void that only the best friend he’s been ghosting for the past three months can get him out of. If he lets her. But when their chance meeting — after he promises he’ll never search her out— takes him straight to her doorstep, he questions all her words. Everything she’s said to him the past seven years, was it true? Was any of it real?
But even as he faces demons, fights battles and teases as much she taunts, he’s waiting for her. He’s waiting for HIS Ryen. Will he ever find her or was she just a made up version of a spoiled brat that he tried to hold on to in all the broken realities around?
This book was EVERYTHING!!!! This book was filled with layers and layers of food for thought and moments that demanded introspection into one’s self and behavior and the reasons that trigger and ignite them, and I loved everything about it.
P.S - Fuck Trey Burrowes and the pissy little coward count that raised his spoiled entitled ass!!!!
⭐️: 10/10 🌶️: 7/10 💧: 8/10
There was so much to unpack in this book. The need for acceptance and visibility at any cost. At all cost.
Ryen is THAT girl. Smart, beautiful, popular, cheerleader. Shallow. She has the baseball captain chasing her heels, a team of similarly beautiful but shallow girls in flocks and feigned respect over the school she rules with snotty remarks and teasing smiles. But she’s not her. She’s not real. She can’t be. Not with them. Because if anyone knows her— the real her— they wouldn’t like her anymore.
But someone knows though. A boy from Thunder Bay that she’s been pouring her words out to over black pages freely for seven years. He knows. But not everything. Because if he knew everything too, he wouldn’t like her as much he does now.
Misha. The rebellious guitarist, black sheep, grandson of Senator Grayson. Broken. One night of chance sends him into a tumultuous spiral into a void that only the best friend he’s been ghosting for the past three months can get him out of. If he lets her. But when their chance meeting — after he promises he’ll never search her out— takes him straight to her doorstep, he questions all her words. Everything she’s said to him the past seven years, was it true? Was any of it real?
But even as he faces demons, fights battles and teases as much she taunts, he’s waiting for her. He’s waiting for HIS Ryen. Will he ever find her or was she just a made up version of a spoiled brat that he tried to hold on to in all the broken realities around?
This book was EVERYTHING!!!! This book was filled with layers and layers of food for thought and moments that demanded introspection into one’s self and behavior and the reasons that trigger and ignite them, and I loved everything about it.
P.S - Fuck Trey Burrowes and the pissy little coward count that raised his spoiled entitled ass!!!!