Yes. (Yas.)

I ate this book up. The two MCs are unlikeable but just redeeming enough to root for. While the book deals with a lot of heavy themes, there’s a perfect balance with witty and humor. I just really had a lot of fun reading this. I loved being inside the brain of these two characters. I was basically like this 😯😨🤭🫢😳 the whole time. This book was extremely hard to put down!

The type of humor in this book really worked for me! It actually made me laugh quite a few times (which hardly ever happens) without feeling like it was trying to make me laugh.

The only reason it’s not 5 stars is because there was a section where it felt like it dragged a bit. And I wanted more resolution on one character near the end that we didn’t get.

Other than that READ THIS.

I might be in the minority here but I absolutely loved this. The structure, the characters, the way the story was split between them, the social commentary around how women are viewed and manipulated by society, how much their trauma changed them and makes them so angry and hurt to the point where that harm switches from the outside to coming from themselves without them even realizing it.

None of the characters are likable, but that’s exactly what makes reading this and learning about their stories so much more interesting. You get an immediate first impression when you’re introduced to them, but the more they tell their story, the more you get to understand that there’s so much more to them than just being “unlikable”, that they’re also hurt and most have never had the chance to heal and get help. For most of the book, a lot of the characters show no empathy for the other people in the group, they’re not what you’d call “girls girls”, but they’re also not supposed to be. This is not a book about women caring for each other, it’s a book about how much harm was caused to them and how they deal with it in the present.

The characters feel exaggerated with the way they talk and interact with others, but in a way that is done on purpose, to emphasize how different they are, how each has a distinct personality and how their story makes sense to them.

The way each character's story was told was so interesting to read. Because each of their stories are based on fairytail, there’s so many unique details that indicate what fairytail they’re representing, so many similes and parallels that I found to be written so well, casually inserted into their story that could otherwise be seen as a mindless details, but that here have so much meaning. You can still read this without knowing each fairytail and what each character represents, though I do think it has a way bigger impact when you know the original story and how the author decided to put their own spin in this book.

There’s also an element of mystery with all these women having been called to join this therapy group and these mystery emails having been sent to them. Why? Who sent the emails? Why them? With what purpose? You get to slowly make theories and find out why they all got together to share their lives.

I won’t say this was the most well written book ever, and I do understand some of the criticism it gets, but this worked for me and personally really enjoyed reading it.