It's camp! It's camp! I don't know what to tell you, it's camp! This is an author who knew exactly what she wanted to do and did it. It's so real but also so not. It's so seriously unserious until it brings it back around in a devastating way.

I listened to the first chapter of the audiobook about a month before I read it for real because Rae's struggle with cancer, both physically and emotionally, was so brutally written that I wanted to physically read it instead to make sure I didn't miss a single word. Unfortunately, time wasn't on my side, but the audiobook was still fantastic. The narrator definitely understood the assignment. I'll still try to read the sequels physically when they come out, though.

The characters were all fantastic. Rae, first and foremost, but also all the character characters. They fell into their respective tropes perfectly while also exceeding them. But not too much. It was a delicate balancing act that really paid off. The ending didn't shock me because I knew something was up, but it didn't make it any less painful.