buddy read with jade and i’m very glad we suffered through this together :)

there was so much underlying potential here, and so many elements that could have been so profound if they were explored, but they just weren’t. they were brought up and then dropped. the pacing was off; the ending was way too rushed.

i appreciate that elliot attempted some character development but it was just so quickly done and half-assed that it didn’t feel very genuine. elliot as a character was so obnoxious—don’t get me wrong, i enjoy a book with an unlikeable main character, but most of the time it just felt like the author was trying to paint elliot as quirky and sassy and that we were supposed to be rooting for him when he was just an awful person.

i also appreciate the representation, especially in terms of disability, but i just think that there have to be better examples of disability in literature out there.

i was looking forward to this one but :/