Thank you to Forever's marketing team for reaching out and sending me an e-arc of this book!

I'm disappointed.

A big reason as to why I was extremely passionate about this book is because within the marketing it's clearly emphasized that both characters in this book are Mexican-American AND Queer. Which once again brings us to the table about what Mexican-American heritage looks like and overall Latinx representation.

If the marketing explicitly states that Mexican-American representation is used in the book via the characters, I expect to see that. There's not a "singular" Mexican-American experience, everyone grows up differently and interacts with our culture in as such.

A large emphasis should be made that this book does NOT have these main characters individually interact with their own personal Mexican heritage. We see Angela's parents travel to San Jaun and it's shared that they are from there but that's pretty much it. Being Mexican-American and in Angelas case being an Ace Lesbian is so significant to our community, this book loses the emphasis on the AND Mexican-American portion which is unfortunate.

I also wish we would've seen more of Kyrstal and her background, this book was a large focus on who Angela was, but I wanted to get to know Kyrstal too apart from her relationship with Angela.

As a Mexican-American myself, I don't feel represented in this book. That can be my singular opinion, other reviewers who are Mexican like myself might disagree with me and that's totally fine.

Let's take a breather...

One of the biggest things about this book is social media... specifically TikTok.

Now I might say something controversial, but this felt like a love letter to Tiktok... Above everything else. And that to me just does not feel right.

While there are several important conversations that are made about discovering your own sexuality and being comfortable with the fluidity of it. There's this overwhelming shadow of "Tiktok"

Social media in books is a trope that I simply cannot get behind. I really wanted to push past this while reading but it was also drawn back to "dating the internet" and it's distasteful and cringe.

One's identity and the exploration of it shouldn't be tied down to an app that often suppresses voices that create this kind of content.

I want to end this on a positive note.

The exploration of Ace identity is one that I admire and respect, I learned a lot about the ace community and think that the conversations about being ace were handled with care.