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  • You Started It
    thatbookishgarden
    Jun 26, 2025
    You Started It
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

    STOP BECAUSE THAT WAS SO GOOD. I genuinely believe this is one of those books that are going to stay with me forever. I absolutely loved seeing Jamie and Axel's development and the life lessons they learned. This book contained messages I needed to hear too and I just have so much appreciation for the words said between each character. There were definitely moments where I was annoyed and I felt like Jamie was just being..annoying. (the lacking of communication-) But it ended up all being solved as we got to see Jamie learning to not run away from the joy right in front of her face because she was scared of diverting from her plan and learning to communicate her emotions. And that was the beauty of it, this book was so genuine to reality I think and I just really loved it all so much in the end. Seeing literally every single character, including Jamie's mother, learn their own lesson and get to see them all grow was so beautiful.

    Thank you to NetGalley, Tundra Book Group, and the author, Jackie Khalilieh for this eARC.

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