Cuteness Overload

I really like Kingfisher world building, it’s always very immersive. Also, her characters are always endearing and I was rooting for them to all be okay by the end.

It’s a straight forward story, but I don’t know, it’s maybe a little too straightforward for my taste. The villain is very superficial and almost anecdotical to the story and nothing is a problem for more than a page so no tension can build out of what happens.

I guess this is a story for a way younger audience than myself but still it was cool to read :)

NB : also kinda felt 🤨 about the fact that the only beautiful person in this book was the white girl when the whole story features black characters lol.

I loved the themes this book handled as well as the protagonists, they were so cute and I really felt for them and their stories but I felt bored at times. Some things are repeated a lot and things felt slow for 50-60% of the book.

Anothing thing is : I didn’t feel the romance and at some point, I didn’t even root for it 😅. First, as I said in one of my posts, their conversations — while very good in theory — never felt natural to me. It feels like they follow a script they got from couple therapy. The spark is mainly there when they’re being spicy (like reallllly there 😂🔥) but I would’ve liked this in other aspects of their relationship. Second, Mira might have grown a lot and started thinking about herself, her needs and wants but Isabel didn’t do that work and for a large part of the book she’s prioritizing Mira’s needs while her own are never acknowledged. And truthfully by the end I still don’t feel like there are, but maybe it’s just me.

Anyway it’s just how I felt but still I don’t regret reading it, it was on my TBR for a long while and maybe my feelings about it are also because I had other expectations for it :)