”How can all these people be going about their lives totally oblivious to what's been happening to mine? Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.”

WOW!!! I'm so damn emotional about this book. I'm such a slut for wholehearted and love related contemporaries. I always avoided reading them because they make me all soft and mushy on the inside.

I loooooooooooooooooooved Nicola Yoon's writing soooo much!!! It was so graceful. Especially when she wrote about all these issues in America and the taboos in migrating families... Seriously I felt that!!! When you move to a new country and see yourself as a stranger, you just want to blend in like Natasha'a dad. I even understood Charlie's mind and how he hated his heritage and his roots so much that he would bully his own brother. Besides its delightful take on love at first sight and destiny, this book outdid itself in exploiting how your society can teach you self-hatred like it's a stipulation for fitting in (especially in White America).

But seriously though! This book was an epitome of miracles. Maybe when we read about them, they seem unrealistic and impossible in our eyes, but I'm such a dreamer and I shamelessly believe in them. I believe in love at first sight, it may not happen to me, but it's definitely a real thing. I believe in destiny, love, and alldat. My heart was so soft, like, UGH. For someone as passionate as me, this story really left me breathless! So sentimental, so lovely, so wholesome...

Anyhow, I'm so in love with Natasha, and DANIEL <3, love me some POC characters. I absolutely lovedddd this book. It moved me in all the right ways. The ending was splendid that it literally left me in tears. Goddamnnnnnnn. I only have 2 words left:

READ. IT.