3.75

I actually really liked this! This made me realize that I much prefer love-themed contemporary novels rather than your typical romances, mostly because of the unpredictability rooted in the flawed characters. You didn’t exactly have anything to root for, but the fiction felt realistic in all it’s complexity, alienation and interlacing identity crises, as to be expected from relationships between people who try to figure out who they are based on their ambiguous function in others’ lives.

Although I couldn’t relate to the plot directly, I felt a familiarity with the depictions of overwhelming or perplexing aspects of life in the modern world. I enjoyed how the book was written, with the self-deprecating humor and inventive parallels drawn between elementary school English lessons and the overarching disorientation that the MC is currently going through.

Sorry about the rambly review, just felt like jotting down some thoughts as soon as I finished.