I don’t quite know how to review this book, because objectively, it was good. But is it my preferred genre? Probably not. And I can’t knock it for just not being what I typically read. 

That being said, I cried like a little baby at the end. I was very skeptical starting it out because hello??? Secondary school Connell was a menace. but as I kept reading, it all made more sense. And suddenly it was this beautiful story of how two very flawed people can change each other for the better, spinning in each other’s orbit for years, supporting one another and loving one another so completely, to the point that it doesn’t matter whether they’re together or not. They’ll just always be there for each other no matter what. 

All in all, a really lovely book that ended on more positive of a note than I anticipated. The lack of quotation marks is actually a crime against humanity, though. And I stand by that.