This book holds a lot of important messages that are very commonly thought of as 'not a big deal' which in reality actually sustain a big impact on someone. I definitely think this book had some sort of charm, whether it be the realistic humane characters or the subtle & simple but prominent writing which made the reading experience just so good and engaging. Overall I think it really just boils down to if you could relate to the themes presented in this book or not; either way, those said themes were important, but they varied in levels of personal important whether or not you can relate.

But the beauty of this book for me was that I felt emotional for Ashleigh (and even the rest of the characters) based on things happening to her that I couldn't correlate with at all. I don't know how Liz Kessler did it, I rarely feel emotion while reading books, and I'm really not in the right mindset to delve deeper into that, but she did it. Sure this was just a personal experience and everyone reading this book will certainly not have the same reading experience as I did, but this is just my experience with this wonderful book, and for that, I give it 5⭐️s.

And look, I don't care all that much if everything ended up too neatly or some of the characters were questionable or whatever. I wasn't looking at this book from that perspective once I started feeling WAYS I NEVER DO WHILE READING LITERATURE. My singular complaint is the blurb. It didn't actually summarise the premise of the book that well... iykyk if you've read it. But even then it's not anything world shattering and at the end of the day I don't care.

I'm so glad I had the opportunity to read something as relatable as this at this perfect time where I was able to relate to this, and I'm also so glad I read this at this perfect time because my last read was absolute DOG SHIT:) (so yay I'm not going to get into a reading slump)