A review by liviatoures
First & Then by Emma Mills

5.0

“When you love something, you can’t be happy all the time, can you? Like, that’s why you love it. It makes you feel all kinds of things, not just happy. It can hurt, it can make you fucking mad, but … it makes you feel something, you know?”

This book is everything that I've ever wanted from YA Contemporary. It's cute, fluffy, with a mixture of delight that delivers warm in my heart.
Honestly, I can't believe that I will love this book so much with my whole heart. I try to read this book several times before, but never really got further until now. I am glad that I did!

I love almost every aspects of this book. Sure, there are few lil things that left me a bit unsatisfied, but all the characters in this book are capable to make me still enjoy it as much as possible.

Our heroine aka Devon Tennyson is charming, funny, yet so flawed in her characteristic that makes her relatable. She's so funny and full of sarcasm all the time. I love how she eventually growing up and become much more better. Her character development is one of my most favorite in YA world. That's actually said a lot because I rarely know light-hearted books with so much growth in their character.
I also like Ezra Lynley. He's everything that I want for hero's characteristic. He is brooding type, but he never act rude or like a jerk most of the time just to proof how cool he is. His awkward behavior is straight up charming. There are so many moments that I love about him. Especially about many actions that he do for getting Devon's heart.