I read this fast, so maybe this in influencing me, but this was just okay. There wasn't much depth, if I'm honest, and it felt a little too cliche-d and predictable. Even the internal critiques of the characters failed to actually go below surface level. Nerdy girl who's secretly quirky - oh my god!!!! Yeah. The plot saved this for the most part, as the characters really did feel quite cliched and 2-dimensional. Maybe I'm being harsh, I probably am, but it felt like it was trying to be a book that could be so "revealing" to the YA audience, but it just fell flat and into over-done points. I don't know, the only characters I actually cared about were Raine and Daniel.

And yes, I recognise this is a YA novel, so it's going to be at a YA level - that is not my issue. My issue is it fell into a Tumblr trap of tropes and failed to explore the characters, no matter how much it felt like we were "exploring them" when reading. I'm sure most of Oseman's audience and the Heartstopper fans probably loved this book (and I liked Heartstopper), but it just wasn't amazing. I mean, I finished it 5 minutes ago and I'm already forgetting characters names.