A review by bbroiles
It's Not Like It's a Secret by Misa Sugiura

3.0

It started a really good read, but it was less humor than I was expecting, and by 60% through I was tired of Sana and the whole complex web of everyone's lies. So... it was a good book, but I enjoyed it less than I might've in high school. The drama was tiring, the muddled communication as a drama trope was irritating, and the emotional "climax and wrap up" was way too trite for my tastes. Tackling the nuances of racism in high school is tricky, so I'm not comfortable being too judgmental on how she handled it, but it seemed overworked in spots. Maybe that was the point, what to do I know.