I'm not sure why it took me so long to pick this one up, since I really did enjoy [b:Anna and the French Kiss|6936382|Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)|Stephanie Perkins|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358271931s/6936382.jpg|7168450] and I was so happy to see Anna and St. Clair pop up here. I think this has a lot of the same appeal--a cool girl with a kind of sophisticated but weird hobby and a ~totally perfect boy~. Funny, authentic dialogue, and I really thought Lola's desire to be mature and how having a hot, older boyfriend totally played into that. I loved her character arc of figuring all that out.

I don't like how soulless Lola looks on the front cover?? like, whoa.

I did like her gay dads and her complicated relationship with her birth mom.

(Full disclosure: this is probably getting an extra nostalgia star from me for its delightful portrayal of San Francisco and the Castro neighborhood, where I lived and worked a few years ago. Like, aww, I used to get off the bus by Hot Cookie toooo.)