I do not like the narrative voice. The tone also feels off. It feels like a wacky uncle telling a rambling story to their 12 year old niece, and trying to impress them and make them laugh. But it also has words like lascivious and heterochromia which feel out of place for a 12 year old. I think it's about to pick up though, and comes with so many high recs I am going to continue.

hi! basically what it says on the tin:) I read a lot of romance but it has historically been as a sub-genre. The last year or two I have started reading romance on its own (typically contemporary) and I am loving it! I thought I'd make a post here and ask for romances specifically set in late summer/fall or with late summer/fall vibes. I live in the southeastern US so it's going to feel like summer for another 1-3 months. I've included some of my reading history below in case it helps but really will take any recommendations, even if it is from authors whose work I disliked before. List of romances I have read and loved: Funny Story, Book Lovers, Red White & Royal Blue List of romances I have read and liked: Beach Read, Passion Project, Love on the Brain, Not in My Book, The Heart Principle, Deep End, The Love Hypothesis, I Hope This Doesn't Find You, Love, Theoretically, The Kiss Quotient, The Bride Test, Just for the Summer List of romances I have read and disliked: My Roommate is a Vampire, Pucking Around, People We Meet on Vacation, The Fine Print, Contractual Obligations, Falling off the Cliff Thank you in advance!!!

With booktok/tiktok, there's a lot of books that become popular because they're viral. So it got me wondering what teenagers from now will consider a very popular series/books that will become iconic or nostalgic in a decade or two. I'm 32 (Millenial) and when we didn't have social media influencing us what to read as teens, I feel like there was only a handful of very popular series/books at a time. Harry Potter was obviously popular but it was becoming popular when I was a kid rather than a teen. So I don't count that. Hunger Games became popular when I started college so I don't count that either! For me, I remember Twilight of course. Iconic. But there was also these other books that I remember every girl at my school was reading. It was the book Crank. I believe it was a series. I read Crank, Glass and Burned, but there was a few more in the series. Does anyone remember the book Crank?! It was so popular, and I remember there were parents who found out about what the book was about and were trying to have it pulled from some libraries (I lived in utah at the time lol). 13 Reasons Why also was very popular when I was in high school. Let me know! I'm very curious! And if you would like, you can let me know if you're Gen Z/Millenial/Gen X/etc. if you don't wanna post your age (: