"I didn't feel like I was anybody until I was Gray's Girl. And then Tal showed me that I didn't have to be that, that I could be hers instead. But maybe it's time to belong to myself."
um hi excuse me while i CRY MY EYES OUT 😭😭😭

this review is late, as so many are, so i don't totally remember everything about the story, but i came across the cover in my list of books read in 2024 and i immediately smiled so big and i knew with everything in me that i LOVED this book. i then read through my journal entries and was basically giggling and kicking my feet while my students were taking an assessment.

this book is such a beautiful, chaotic, messy, achingly emotional journey of coming out and discovering/exploring queerness and queer community and what it means to come into your own. Alana was a dreamy MC, and although she was flawed, she was trying her best!! she does so much yearning in this book; it reminded me of when i first came out and how gay i was. tbh, how gay i still am!!!

Tal is the perfect love interest and i could absolutely see myself falling a girl like her. it was such a read on myself every time Alana described anything she felt about the way Tal looked or what she did or what she said. damn. 
and Gray!! what a sweet boy. he's so supportive of Alana and i loved their friendship throughout the book. 

ugh, i just loved it. it was everything i wanted it to be.