More of a 3.25 🌟 Honestly this book just did not grip me, I had been so thrilled by the concept of the plot but it just fell a little short for me and seemed very low stakes. In saying that i much preferred this version of charlottle - though she seemed very different, even just her inner voice, to the original book. Honestly just wish there was more emma and regan in this not going to lie

4.25 🌟 As an adhd girlie - I just want to say Regan I loooove you! the way her train of thoughts would whiz around to a batshit conclusion? she’s so insane I love her. I really loved all the relationships developed on the side of the romance here, and felt Emma and Regan had very believable chemistry. As per Haley Cass could do with some heavy editing as her sentences can be quite repetitive but this one was so so much fun. Their hang ups initially with each other fed so much into their parental traumas, and I wish more of this was resolved in the end - some Of it felt a little hanging at the end. I love the adhd/autistic romance of it all - the neurodivergent of it all really made it emotionally resonate more with me as I could relate so often

Didn’t love that the MC in this book was very privileged/nepo babies but it was giving a sapphic red white and royal blue which I rated… Never have I ever met a character who smirked as much as charlotte Jesus Christ. I do think Haley Cass does need an extra pass from an editor at times, and I wasn’t that enamoured with the narrator but I did get got by the well meaning dad bumbling through a coming out - how am I four for four. I am so intrigued by Midnight Rain that I will read the next book to get it to - I love an AU lol

ok thats three for three audiobooks making me cry... maybe im the problem. short, sweet and sapphic audiobook, which had a good level of yearning to boot. i found ellies sexuality crisis very relatable, alongside the panic of being in love with your best friend, an aboslute right of passage. i definitely do think it read more ~ gay~ than queer, and it was very femme heavy but also as a femme can i judge? i found it a little hard to follow how we were moving through time, and it was suddenly three years of plot, and there were some definite issues with clunkiness of the text, but also thats the vibe of a lot of rom coms - cest la vie. i was not overly convinced by the narrator, but we will see if she can create more distinct character voices soon as i have already borrowed another haley cass from the library so lets go lesbians etc

4.25 🌟 This book made me cry twice, im not sure if i am just emotional at this point or what? I'm on such an easy audiobook kick whilst my partner is away - so this fit the bill. I really enjoyed this book, but it didnt quite resonate as much for me as the cassandra complex/casandra in reverse. I loved the magical realism of it all and the different types of relationships, makeups and breakdowns it handled. I ADORED Henry and Winter (dumb name) as characters, I would die for them and they both really reminded me of my best friend and her family lol.